Description
Red and Blue Chair. (1917). Arq. Gerrit Rietveld.
Made in PLA. Ideal for desk and shelf decoration, adding style and personality to your space.
Dimensions:
Width: 9 cm
Height: 10 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Weight: 65 g
(Available in other colors and sizes upon request)
History:
Designed in 1917 by **Gerrit Rietveld**, the Red and Blue Chair emerged as a radical exploration of form, space, and structure. In its original version, it was made of natural wood, but in 1923 Rietveld introduced the primary colors that would make it iconic, aligning it with the principles of the **De Stijl** movement. More than a comfortable piece of furniture, it was conceived as a three-dimensional manifesto: a chair that breaks with artisanal tradition and proposes a new relationship between object, user, and space.
The chromatic composition—red for the seat, blue for the backrest, a black structure, and yellow accents—is not decorative but conceptual. Each plane and each color operates autonomously, reinforcing the idea that the object is built from independent elements that intersect without merging. This logic directly references Neoplasticist painting and the pursuit of total abstraction, translating into the physical world the ideals that artists like Mondrian developed on the two-dimensional plane.
Over time, the Red and Blue Chair became one of the most influential objects of modern design and a symbol of twentieth-century avant-garde. Now present in museums and collections around the world, it represents the moment when design stopped imitating familiar forms and began to propose new rules. It is a piece that is not only seen or used: it is interpreted, discussed, and recognized as a fundamental milestone in the history of modern design and architecture.
