a zig-zag chair

DESIGNED BY GERRIT TH. RIETVELD IN 1932, BEFORE 1942

Details

a zig-zag chair
Designed by Gerrit Th. Rietveld in 1932, before 1942
Brown and cream pained wood, composed of four tapering rectangular sections held together with screws and dove-tail joins, with seven screws on the seat and six on the base, with solid triangular section wooden strengthening wedges set in the acute angles, with seven dove-tail joins visible where back and seat join, rectangular carrying groove on the back, metal strip screwed to the base
75cm. high x 33cm. wide x 44cm. deep

Provenance

Rietveld and the Rietveld Academie, Sale Christie's Amsterdam, 7 June 1988, lot 409

Lot Essay

cf. Peter Vöge, The Complete Rieveld Furniture, Rotterdam, 1993, p. 82, nos. 117-120
Marijke Kper, Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld. Het volledige werk 1888-1964, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 1992, pp. 145-147

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