

Rietveld is an architect and a furniture designer associated with the magazine De Stijl and highly influenced by Piet Mondrain paintings. He is best known for the Schroder house in Utrecht designed in 1924 and the Red Blue chair made in 1918(Overy, p.7, 12).
When Mrs Schroder’ husband died, she wanted to go to live in a house where she could be emotionally closer to her three children. Her and Rietveld looked for a piece of land to build an entire new house and based the design on a close dialogue between each other, creating an extraordinary client – architect relationship.
She lived in the house for until her death in 1985 and Rietveld used one of the ground floor rooms as an atelier until he opened his office in Utrecht(Overy, p.14,15).
From the exterior the house is a composition of various vertical and horizontal planes and intersecting with inear steel sections; the interior is characterized by simple elements and primary colors(Moffett, fazio, Wodehouse, p.502)
I think that the influence of Mondrian’s painting is absolutely evident and this make me think as well about the composition that le Corbusier used to do in his purist paintings and how they influenced his architectural forms. This is quite interesting because I think that is really useful to look at artist’s works to get inspiration and find new ways of creating spaces. I think art design and architecture are closely related to each other and it’s good to keep our eyes opened to new movement and be informed about what happen in the world of art.
References:
M.Moffet, M.Fazio, L.Wodehouse, A world History of Architecture, , Laurence king publishing, 2003, London
P. Overy, Rietveld Furniture and the Schroder House, South bank centre, 1990, England
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