リートフェルト･シュレーダー館所蔵

【ヘーリット･リートフェルト･アーカイヴ】

マイクロフィッシュ版

定価 ７００，０００ 【税込】

(Rietveld Schröder House)

オランダのユトレヒト生まれ。家具職人の息子として１１歳から父の工場で働き、１９１１年に家具職人として独立、建築家Ｐ．Ｊ．Ｃ．クラ一ルハ マーの建築学講義に通う。１９１７／１８年に「レッド＆ブルーチェア」をデザインし、１９１９年にデ・スティル運動に参加。彼の有名な椅子のデザインは、 雑誌rデ･スティル」に初めて掲載されました。１９２３年にはバウハウスに作品を出品。１９２７年、彼は試験的にファイバーボードとベニヤ板を使った家具 をデザインし、その後アムステルダムのメズ ＆ Ｃｏ．で造られました。世界大恐慌の間は、決ったパッケージ部品で組み立てられる安いコストの家具をデザイン。１９４２年アルミ・チェアーをデザインし、 １９５７年に曲線のメタル・チェアーシリーズを創作。しかし、晩年には、基本に戻り木の要素と幾何学的な形のスチルマン・チェアーをデザインする。「レッ ド ＆ ブルーチェア」はリートフェルトの原点でした。http://www.deGode.cojp/designer/desiners/rietveld.html

Red-blue chair (inv.no.407 A 004) ／ Red-blue Chair with zig-zag chair (inv.no.035 F 029)

Gerrit Rietvelt Archive
With the publication of th Rietveld-Schröder Archive,in trusteeship of the Central Museum Utrecht, IDC Publishers has made accessible the world's most important Rietveld collection. Some 1,900 drawings, 2,250 photographs,1,800 letters and 330 texts give a clear and impressive account of one of the most important members of the De Stijl group of artists.

The Utrecht furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) became a member of De Stijl in 1919. The still uncoloured version of the red blue chair that was later to achieve world fame was published in the group's journal (called simply De Stijl) in September of that year, Rietveld continued to contribute to the journal until it ceased publication in 1932. In his furniture designs, Rietveld lent three-dimensional form to the stylistic principles of the group.

In 1924 he was commissioned by the interior designer Truus Schröder-Schröder to build a house for herself and her three children. The resulting Rietveld Schröder House is the only building to have fully incorporated all the architectural concepts of De Stijl.

Contents of Archive

Price and other information
Price： \700,000【税込】
(including Printed binders and an inventory on CD-ROM and in printed form)
Scope: c.6,000items
Number of fiche: 280
Size of fiche: 105 x 148mm
Film type Positive silver-halide
Reduction ratio: Varies according to the size of the original
Internal finding aids: Eye-legible headers on each fiche
External finding aid: A detailed inventory in printed form and on CD-ROM describing each item
Storage: The microfiche are supplied in two sturdy plastic binders with dustcover

Mass production
After completing the Rietveld Schröder House, Rietveld decided to explore other directions. He became affiliated with the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). His 1927 design for a garage-cum-house was among the first of its kind, making use of a steel framework with standard, pre-fabricated concrete sheet cladding. In his furniture design too, Rietveld strove towards inexpensive mass production. For many years he experimented with models which could be constructed from a single sheet of material. The most successful design of this type is the`zig-zag' chair, (although for technical reasons the chair was actually produced using four separate boards).
An important recurrent theme in Rietveld's work is the "core" house, in which the central core comprising hallway, kitchen, bathroom, toilet and stairway would be built in the factory. Extra rooms could then be added on site, to forma four, five or six room house.

Renewed interest
Many of Rietveld's ideas were never actually put into practice. The greater part of his realized work consists of detached private houses. In the 1950s appreciation of his work grew, partly due to a renewed interest in De Stijl. It was then that he was awarded his first prestigious commissions from the Dutch government. In l953-54, he built the Dutch Pavilion for the Biennale in Venice. His last design was that for the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which was completed in 1973, nine years after Rietveld's death.

The Archive
The Rietveld Schröder Archive is an important supplement to Rietveld's physical work. The conserved drawings, photographs, letters and other documents give a clear picture of his ideas concerning mass production, industrialization and social housing. Rietveld's architectural practice was established on the ground floor of the Rietveld Schröder House, in the large room on the Prins Hendriklaan side, from 1924 to 1933. He collaborated with Truus Schröder on various projects during this period. Even after his practice moved to Oudegracht 155, he and Truus Schröder, with whom he also had an intimate relationship, continued to work together regularly. Following the death of his wife in 1957, Rietveld lived in the Schröder House for seven years.

The world's largest Rietveld collection
The Rietveld Schroder Archive consists of Truus Schröder's collection of drawings, photographs, letters, documents and literature by and about Gerrit Rietveld. Some 1,900 drawings, 2,250 photographs, 1,800 letters and 330 texts cover the entire period of his life, with the accent on the early period and the construction of the Schröder House. A large part of the collection comprises sketches made by Rietveld himself.

In 1987, the Rietveld Schröder Archive, the house and its contents, were given into the trusteeship of the Centraal Museum Utrecht. Together with the museum's own collection, it forms the largest Rietveld collection in the world.