5. Gerrit Rietveld, Zig-zag-stolen, 1932-33

Gerrit Rietveld, Zig-zag-stolen, 1932-33

Gerrit Rietvelds Zig-zag-stol er skulpturel og enkel, og fokus er her konstruktionen som det fremtrædende og smukke. Rietveld var medlem af den hollandske designgruppe De Stijl, som arbejdede med abstraktioner og forskydninger af former. Han udtalte selv: ”Dette er ikke en stol, men en designer-joke.” Altså, at her var der ikke tale om komfort eller ergonomi, men i stedet en idé om en stol – en abstraktion.

Gerrit Rietveld, The Zig-Zag Chair, 1932-33

Gerrit Rietveld’s Zig-Zag Chair is sculptural and simple. Here the focus is on the striking and beautiful construction. Rietveld was a member of the Dutch design group De Stijl, whose pro- ponents favoured abstract and distorted forms. He himself said, ‘It isn’t a chair but a designer joke.’ In other words, this was not about comfort or ergonomics but about pursuing the idea of a chair – an abstraction.