Gerrit Rietveld

De Stijl used abstract geometry, primary colors, and a reduced visual language. Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair and the Rietveld Schroder House translate those ideas into furniture and architecture.

The Rietveld Schroder House was completed in 1924 for Truus Schroder-Schrader in Utrecht. Its sliding partitions, open corners, and colored planes made it one of the clearest built examples of De Stijl architecture.

The house is preserved as a museum site in Utrecht and is listed by UNESCO. Visitors usually encounter it as a small but radical domestic building rather than a large public monument.

The Red and Blue Chair is Rietveld's famous wooden chair associated with De Stijl design. Its black frame, colored planes, and simple rectilinear parts make it look like a three-dimensional Mondrian-like composition.