Phil Pascoe
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It doesn't interest me a jot, but may be of interest to some of you - I've just seen on WHSmiths online a book called "How to Build Rietveld Furniture" £22.95.
RIETVELD FURNITURE
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Jacob
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Excellent book. Everybody does the red and blue chair of course, but there are other interesting bits n bobs.
I did mine from reclaimed mahogany ish stuff but didn't paint it. It is surprisingly comfortable as everybody who has sat in it agrees. Could be better if the back was a few inches longer - the top hits the back of my head - I think Rietveld must have been smaller than me.
I did mine from reclaimed mahogany ish stuff but didn't paint it. It is surprisingly comfortable as everybody who has sat in it agrees. Could be better if the back was a few inches longer - the top hits the back of my head - I think Rietveld must have been smaller than me.
Red and blue one.... interesting piece of art history, but when I have a decent workshop, my first built would be the steltman !
Could ever compare the dimensions given in the book to one of the real chairs ? I don't know about this books, but on some other I found that some slight (probably intentional) errors in the given dimensions allowed you to make a look-like furniture, but definitively not something that have this "accomplished" feeling that made the original famous.
Could ever compare the dimensions given in the book to one of the real chairs ? I don't know about this books, but on some other I found that some slight (probably intentional) errors in the given dimensions allowed you to make a look-like furniture, but definitively not something that have this "accomplished" feeling that made the original famous.
Jacob
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The originals were fairly variable anyway (I'm told) so a bit here or there isn't going to matter to much and presumably wouldn't have bothered Rietveld himself.
The "accomplished" feel is down to the design, not the craftsmanship - it's easy to make. So "look alike" is just as good as the original.
The "accomplished" feel is down to the design, not the craftsmanship - it's easy to make. So "look alike" is just as good as the original.
Just to illustrate, the 1963 steltman chair by rievelt as I know it :
The section of the armrest is rather bulky, strong.
If you have a look at this builder's blog : http://rietveldbuilder.blogspot.fr/2011 ... egins.html
take a look as the picture of the chair as he hope it would be ( http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KlC_XYAyiis/T ... 600/rr.jpg ) and you notice the same feeling from the armrest
But if you look the chair he built from the plans in the book : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q9uwVBuz8IA/T ... 1600/1.jpg the feeling is definitively different.
Apparently the book use all 44x100mm pieces, which is definitively not the case for the original chair seen here : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CsCUA5TZwsU/T ... uction.jpg
Jaunedeau.
The section of the armrest is rather bulky, strong.
If you have a look at this builder's blog : http://rietveldbuilder.blogspot.fr/2011 ... egins.html
take a look as the picture of the chair as he hope it would be ( http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KlC_XYAyiis/T ... 600/rr.jpg ) and you notice the same feeling from the armrest
But if you look the chair he built from the plans in the book : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q9uwVBuz8IA/T ... 1600/1.jpg the feeling is definitively different.
Apparently the book use all 44x100mm pieces, which is definitively not the case for the original chair seen here : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CsCUA5TZwsU/T ... uction.jpg
Jaunedeau.
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Had a look at your links and the book (plans and photo) I'd say they all seem to be pretty much the same. Different surface finishes (painted off white in the book), different camera angles, but otherwise the same. Could be wrong but there wouldn't be much in it I think.
