GERRIT TH. RIETVELD, 1923-1924

Details

Brugman end table
GERRIT TH. RIETVELD, 1923-1924
The black lacquered top supported by a blue and yellow base on a red circular foot, the sides lacquered in white
60 cm. high x 50 cm. wide x 49 cm. deep

Provenance

Til Brugman

Literature

Peter Vöge, The complete Rietveld furniture, Rotterdam 1993, p. 58 and 59, no. 47
Marijke Küper and Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964, Het volledige werk, Utrecht 1992, p. 76, for a contemporary photograph of the Brugman interior showing the present end table

Exhibited

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991

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Lot Essay

The present table was designed by Gerrit Th. Rietveld as a special commission for Til Brugman in 1923. De Stijl painter Vilmos Huszár restyled her interior in which also a white painted red-blue chair and the present end table were included.

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