Item Description
For the true connoisseur of De Stijl and modernist canon: an exceptionally rare Gerrit Rietveld Berlin Chair, executed in the early 1990s for a Rietveld exhibition at the Centraal Museum Utrecht — the very institution that houses the world’s most important Rietveld collection. This is not a later replica or anonymous production piece. The chair was commissioned specifically for the museum show, then acquired directly by the exhibition’s own designer, who has kept it in a single, private collection ever since. Three decades of unbroken provenance. Constructed from solid plywood lacquered transparent white, the Berlin Chair articulates his radical vision of anti-compromise seating: architecture for the body. The chair remains in excellent vintage condition, with honest, light patina consistent with careful use and storage. What you acquire here is museum-exhibition history: a Rietveld made for the Rietveld museum guardians, held by the show’s creator. Ideal for the advanced collector seeking pieces with curatorial lineage, not just form.
