From September 1 to October 31, 2010 Amsterdam and Utrecht will become a hotbed of design activities celebrating the Netherlands’s influence on the international design world past, present, and future paying homage to the legacy of architect, designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) and “the Saved by Droog” exhibition is an imaginative look at how designers reinterpret and perceive the use of everyday objects.
As a principal member of De Stijl (1917-1931), Rietveld’s output was proliferate designing as many as 100 homes. Chief among his iconic designs are the Rietveld Schröder House (1924) known as “the house without walls” and the Red, Blue, White chair (1917) which represented one of the first explorations into creating three dimensional works in primary colors adhering to De Stijl philosophy…
Adds glamour to mirrors using bold colors to draw attention
Adding to the excitement is VandM dealer Droog’s “Saved by Droog” project acquired by The Centraal Museum in Utrech which will be on view through October 10, 2010 joining he Museum’s extensive Droog collection. Originally shown at Salone de Mobile 2010 (DESIGNinTELL blog/April 19), nineteen Dutch designers refashioned select everyday objects – over 5000 were salvaged by Droog from liquidation sales – offering a critical examination of our consumer society, a topic to be discussed at Droog’s lectures “Modernism Today.”
A complete listing of events @ http://www.dutchdoubledesign.com/
