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	Equipment for utopia. (furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium) Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) is known best as the...Architecture Institute) reveals that Rietveld was in fact a designer and an architect...female client, Truus Schroder, was Rietveld's first building;(3) many other...
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	Home at Guys; Property news. Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 3/7/2001; ; 517 words ; ...Mondrian-like Schroder-Schrader House in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld; the famous Maison de Verre in Paris designed in 1932...Mann, director of arts and heritage at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, explains: "This is a fascinating...
	Home at Guys Property news Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/7/2001; ; 462 words ; ...Mondrian-like Schroder-Schrader House in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld; the famous Maison de Verre in Paris designed in 1932...Mann, director of arts and heritage at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, explains: "This is a fascinating...
	OUT & ABOUT Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/3/2004; ; 661 words ; ...they weren't the only draw. Miniature furniture designed by modernist Gerrit Rietveld filled glass cases next to landscapes by 17th-century Dutch painters...lady earlier in the week. Much better than a wooden shoe. With Laura Thomas
	DESIGN The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 218 pp Since every single thing we use has been designed, what is a 'designer object'? wonders Martin Gayford Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/12/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...designer back at least to the 18th-century furniture of Thomas Chippendale. The novelty was in the clear division...sitting. Sudjic is a great fan, quite rightly, of Gerrit Rietveld's Red Blue Chair of 1918. This is, roughly speaking...
	Deep-seated affection. Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand); 6/11/2008; 700+ words ; ...wound still evident. 3 Zigzag chair designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld. Made with a continuous sheet of wood and presents...executions I think. 4 The Red and Blue chair by Gerrit Thomas Reitveld. A true object of furniture sculpture...

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