Vitra – Miniature Rood Blauwe Stoel

The “Rodblauwe stelis considered a deciding key object of modern furniture design because of the consequence with which Rietveld understood a piece of furniture as an idealistic, abstract composition of surfaces and lines in a room. The kind of abstraction that has been adopted by Rietveld in here is comparable with the one of the painter Piet Mondrian. Mondrian belonged to a selection of artists and architects so did Rietveld later on that grouped around Theo van Doesburg and his magazine “The Stijl influenciatng the 20th century art sustainably with their radical formulations. Rietveld reduced a given reality to its linear and widely-spread basics. If Mondrian had a landscape as inspiring idol, Rietveld had the idea of a traditional, massive armchair that flew in a geometric construction.

The original of the Rood Blauwe Stoel has been designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the year 1918 and it is produced today as a 1:1 model by Cassina since 1973.

The here offered miniature by Vitra (scale 1:6) consists of lacquered wood.