By Editor Design.nl / 05-10-2007

Rietveld by Rietveld will present their Junior Kratstoel (‘Junior Crate Chair’) from 13 October in the design shop of the Centraal Museum. This stool is a replica of the famous ‘kratstoel’ by Gerrit Rietveld in a form specially suited to children. The stool can be bought exclusively at the design shop from 13 October, and at various outlets throughout the country from 19 October.

The original The Utrecht furniture maker and architect Gerrit Rietveld made his first ‘crate furniture’ in 1934, using the ‘crate wood’ that was usually used as packaging material. The Crate Chair was sold as a assembly kit and available in a variety of colours. Rietveld’s lifelong passion was to make objects with aesthetic qualities available to a wider public. The Junior Crate Chair is a special version by Rietveld by Rietveld, in which the original proportions have been reduced by a third. Rietveld by Rietveld has chosen not to use crate wood, but solid beech wood, which is of higher quality and longer lasting. Every chair is provided with a chip, a tag with a unique number and certificate of authenticity. Just as with the original crate stool, the kids’ crate stool is delivered as an assembly kit.

Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888 – 1964) studied furniture making in Utrecht from his father, and went on to become a world-famous architect. In 1919 he joined ‘De Stijl’, an art movement to which Piet Mondriaan and Bart van der Leck also belonged. Here he found recognition for his ideas but the importance of pure, functional forms. In 1924 Rietveld built the internationally trend-setting Rietveld Schröder House, working closely with Truus Schröder-Schräder, who commissioned the house. It is the only house to have been designed and built entirely on the basis of the principles of ‘De Stijl’. A characteristic feature is the relation between interior and exterior, accented by the use of the primary colours red, blue, yellow in combination with black, grey and white.

Rietveld by Rietveld
Rietveld by Rietveld is an initiative of Egbert Rietveld (1961), grandson of van Rietveld, and great grandson Ries Seijler (1962. Wanting to show the world that ‘Rietveld is more than Red-Blue or the Zig Zag stool’, the two descendants of the great architect established their company Rietveld by Rietveld exactly forty years after Gerrit Rietveld’s death. The Rietveld by Rietveld collection now consists of 7 models: the Military Chair, the Military Table, the Military Stool and the Berlin Chair, all of them designed in 1923, as well as the Steltman Chair of 1963, the Mondial of 1958 and the Children’s Crate Chair of 1934. Design Shop
The Junior Crate Chair is sold by the design shop of the Centraal Museum. The shop is located next to the Dick Bruna House, across from the main building of the Centraal Museum, and entrance is free. The museum shop of the Centraal Museum consists of two sections: one part focuses on Dick Bruna’s books, toys and collector items, while the other part carries an assortment of contemporary Dutch design, including designs by Richard Hutten, Chris Slutter and Ineke Hans. Art books and cards are sold in the entrance hall of the museum.

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