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A virtually similar chair is in the collection of the Volksbuurtmuseum Wijk C in Utrecht.
Architect Hermann Friedrich Mertens studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. In 1911 he joined the staff of the Labor Omnia Vincit (L.O.V.) furniture factory in Oosterbeek and designed numerous pieces of furniture and a furniture showroom for the company. After 1916 when he had left L.O.V. he designed several bank buildings and with his own office, which he started in 1922 in Bilthoven, he received many important commissions, for example Betondorp in Amsterdam and the Unilever Head office in Rotterdam.
The HOPMI (Hollandse Patent Metaalindustrie) was situated in Utrecht Wijk C. Founded in 1917 it produced mainly locks and carriers for bikes. As a result of the economic crisis in the early 1930s the variations in the production increased. Together with the Utrechtse Machinale Stoel en Meubelfabriek (UMS/Pastoe) it started to produce chairs, desks and school furniture. The designs were made by various architects. A Hopmi catalogue from 1934 includes chairs from H.F. Mertens and G.Th. Rietveld. The Centraal Museum in Utrechts owns a Hopmi chair by Rietveld (inv.nr. 31127) and it has the same typical construction screws as the present chair by Mertens. It was this specific torpedo key for which Hopmi got a patent.
(Cf. I. van Zijl, Gerrit Rietveld, London, 2010, pp. 100 and 114, ill.)
Architect Hermann Friedrich Mertens studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. In 1911 he joined the staff of the Labor Omnia Vincit (L.O.V.) furniture factory in Oosterbeek and designed numerous pieces of furniture and a furniture showroom for the company. After 1916 when he had left L.O.V. he designed several bank buildings and with his own office, which he started in 1922 in Bilthoven, he received many important commissions, for example Betondorp in Amsterdam and the Unilever Head office in Rotterdam.
The HOPMI (Hollandse Patent Metaalindustrie) was situated in Utrecht Wijk C. Founded in 1917 it produced mainly locks and carriers for bikes. As a result of the economic crisis in the early 1930s the variations in the production increased. Together with the Utrechtse Machinale Stoel en Meubelfabriek (UMS/Pastoe) it started to produce chairs, desks and school furniture. The designs were made by various architects. A Hopmi catalogue from 1934 includes chairs from H.F. Mertens and G.Th. Rietveld. The Centraal Museum in Utrechts owns a Hopmi chair by Rietveld (inv.nr. 31127) and it has the same typical construction screws as the present chair by Mertens. It was this specific torpedo key for which Hopmi got a patent.
(Cf. I. van Zijl, Gerrit Rietveld, London, 2010, pp. 100 and 114, ill.)