拍品 215
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A G.T. RIETVELD THREE-PIECE SUITE, comprising two chairs and a small table, the chairs of red-painted metal tubing and shaped plywood, the frame composed of two continious curving strips of metal tubing, the shaped white-painted plywood folded over the frame to form the seat and backrest, the plywood joined to the frame by small revealed nuts and bolts, the table with white-painted circular top resting on square green-painted metal tubing frame and four legs (one screw missing from one chair and three from the other), 1930s

细节
A G.T. RIETVELD THREE-PIECE SUITE, comprising two chairs and a small table, the chairs of red-painted metal tubing and shaped plywood, the frame composed of two continious curving strips of metal tubing, the shaped white-painted plywood folded over the frame to form the seat and backrest, the plywood joined to the frame by small revealed nuts and bolts, the table with white-painted circular top resting on square green-painted metal tubing frame and four legs (one screw missing from one chair and three from the other), 1930s
chairs: 73 cm high x 39.2 cm wide x 56 cm deep
table: 59 cm high (3)
来源
NV Nederlandse Installatie Magazijnen, Amsterdam thence by descent

拍品专文

This set was part of the showroom interior of NV Nederlandse Installatie Magazijnen in Amsterdam which was owned by the father of the present owner. This company supplied furniture and fixtures for shop interiors. The father of the present owner had close connections with various furniture designers, like for example Hildo Krop, but also with Rietveld.
Originally the chairs had black stained seat- and back-rest and chromium-plated metal tubing. In the fifties the seat- and back-rest were painted white and the tubing red. The table has its original colour, although repainted, but the tubing was been painted green at the same time.

cf.Marijke Küper & Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 1992, p. 117 - 118 for an explanation and an illustration of a similar chair

See illustration