Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964)
Hoge Stoel or High Back Chair
designed in 1919, this example like made circa 1940
dark stained oak
93cm high, 60cm wide, 60cm deep

Rietveld’s “Hogestoel” was considered highly modern for its era and was featured in several avant-garde interior settings. It was first published in the Dutch journal De Stijl, no. 12 (1920), within an interior design created by Theo van Doesburg in 1919. That same year, Rietveld incorporated a variation of the chair into a contemporary clinic interior in Maarssen, Holland, although this version lacked the two original side panels. The chair’s design shares strong similarities with Russian Constructivism, particularly in its use of flat planes that appear to float in space.

There is an example in the collection of MoMA, New York

Literature: Küper, Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964), The Complete Works, Utrecht 1992, p. 87.

Provenance: Private Collection, Brussels; The Collection of Holger Fischer, Saxony; Private Collection, Dresden

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