GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD (1888-1964)

"He now, under Rietveld’s direction, started to make our furniture, first the Red Blue chair. He made the frame in sections so it could be wrapped up and I would carry it home under my arm and assemble it in London. I then brought a 5cwt pick-up truck and whenever I was in Europe routed myself home via Holland calling on van de Groenikan at De Bilt on the outskirts of Utrecht to collect more furniture."
Brian Housden, `Jolly nice furniture, a note on the work of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld’, 1986

This lot is accompanied by a photographic copy of the entry page of the 1990 South Bank Centre, London, exhibition Rietveld Furniture and the Schroder House, signed by van de Groenekan 6th April 1991, confirming that the collection of Rietveld designs were executed by him 1955-1963.