Gerrit Rietveld

Reitveld (June 24 1888 – June 26 1964) was a Dutch Furniture Designer and Architect. In 1911, he started his own furniture factory. He was influenced by the ‘De Stjl’ movement (style, harmony & order). His work was a reduction to the essentials of form & shape. He was a member of the movement and Architect in 1919. Reitveld went through a lot of change during his period: slavery, Industrial Revolution, WW1 and the Great Depression. He used primary clours and simple basic shapes. In addition, he was also a product designer such as designing lamps, and as a chair designer, he designed rectilinear chairs. Also, Reitveld designed the ‘Zig-Zag’ chair in 1932 and started the design of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.