Red and Blue Chair

The Red Blue Chair was a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld , was a Dutch [i] design [i]er, architect [i] and cabinet maker. ... 

. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl De Stijl

De Stijl was a Dutch artistic [i] movement, founded in 1917 [i]. ... 

 art movement in three dimensions. The original chair was not painted in the familiar De Stijl palette of primary colours, black, grey and white. However, it was later changed to resemble the paintings of Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian,, Dutch painter ... 

 when Rietveld came into contact with this artist's work in 1918.

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The Red Blue Chair was a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
, was a Dutch [i] design [i]er, architect [i] and cabinet maker.
... 

. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl De Stijl

De Stijl was a Dutch artistic [i] movement, founded in 1917 [i]. ... 

 art movement in three dimensions. The original chair was not painted in the familiar De Stijl palette of primary colours, black, grey and white. However, it was later changed to resemble the paintings of Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian,, Dutch painter
... 

 when Rietveld came into contact with this artist's work in 1918.
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