Red-Blue chair

The Red-Blue chair has no precedent in the history of chair design. It can, however, be seen as a skeletal version of the traditional armchair. It consists of seventeen standardized wooden elements, all readily available in lumber stores of the period. Rietveld left his Red-Blue chair unpainted until around 1923; only after joining the De Stijl movement in 1919 and absorbing the influence of Piet …