A lime wood sideboard

DESIGNED BY GERRIT RIETVELD AND EXECUTED IN 1922

Details
A lime wood sideboard
Designed by Gerrit Rietveld and executed in 1922
A central drawer between two small squares ones with coromandel cube handles above a pair of doors
76cm. high x 100cm. wide x 50cm. deep
Provenance
Gerrit Rietveld's sister, then by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

This unique piece seen for the first time is comparable to the Hartog desk, in a contemporary illustration of the Spreekkamer, reproduced in Marijke Kuper and Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964, het volledige werk, Utrecht, 1992, p. 87, no. 59

See illustration

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