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    Default Rietveld plans

    I am looking for plans for Rietveld Red and Blue chair. If anyone has a link, or would be willing to send a copy that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wes Barwick
    I am looking for plans for Rietveld Red and Blue chair. If anyone has a link, or would be willing to send a copy that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
    Here you go.







    Red & Blue chair (1918)
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    The subtile mechanical principle of the chair is not so obvious.
    Explanation: When a person sits in the chair the seat will transmit his weight to the vertical member which in its turn will transmit the load to the lower horizontal member, but when the load shifts to the chair's back the vertical member will stop and lean in the opposite direction. The movement are based on the side rail which acts like a two-way spring.
    So the chair has a mechanical point too.
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    Colors:
    Posts and laths: Black stain with end grain chrome-yellow-lemon (or cadmium-yellow-lemon) or black stain with end grain aluminum paint
    Back: Vemillon
    Seat: Dark Ultramarine
    Drawing by Morten Nyboe, 1993

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    "The chair was specifically built to show that it is possible to create something beautiful, a spatial creation, with simple machine- processed parts. I cut a board of wood into planks and squares. I then sawed the middle part into two for the seat and the backrest, and I made the frame part out of the different lengths of plank. But as I was working on the chair, it never crossed my mind that one day it would become so significant that it would even influence architecture."
    Gerrit Rietveld, about the Red-Blue chair
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    "The so-called red-blue chair, the chair made of two boards and a number of laths, that chair was made to the end of showing that a thing of beauty e.g.
    A spatial object, could be made of nothing but straight, machined materials. So I had the plank sawn into strips and laths; the center part I sawed in two halves, so I had a seat and a back and then, with the laths of various lengths I constructed the chair. When making that thing, it never occurred to me that it would prove to be all that meaningful for myself and possibly for others too; that it would even have an impact on architecture, and when I was given the opportunity of making a house that was based on the very same principles as were incorporated in the chair, I jumped at the occasion, of course."
    Gerrit Rietveld, 1963


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    Rietveld wished to design furniture it was possible to mass produce, that was cheap, so that anyone was allowed to buy them.
    From a social point of view he wished to relieve the labourer from the boredom of hard and repetitive work, by means of machines.

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    "The fact that I am constantly concerned with this extraordinary idea of the awakening of consciousness, may account for my work to be inevitably oriented towards spatial problems. Scaling of undefined space to human proportions may be achieved by a line drawn on a road, a floor, a wall, a covering surface, a combination of vertical and horizontal planes, curved or flat, transparent or massive. It is never a partitioning or closing off, but always a defining element of what is here and there, above and below, between and around."
    Gerrit Rietveld, about defining space


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    "Rietveld made a chair, and with it he signaled the most radical change in language of architecture for five hundred.years!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wes Barwick
    I am looking for plans for Rietveld Red and Blue chair. If anyone has a link, or would be willing to send a copy that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
    or you can buy a book of plans including for the red and blue chair here http://www.cambiumbooks.com/books/fu...ts/9068682806/

    its a USA site.
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    Talking about plans, if anyone needs a set of computer drawn plans e-mail me. It is much easier to look at than the sloppy drawings that I know you guys have. Also, I am thinking about making a completely free plans website. So if anyone has plans they want to donate, send them over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kavuman
    Talking about plans, if anyone needs a set of computer drawn plans e-mail me. It is much easier to look at than the sloppy drawings that I know you guys have. Also, I am thinking about making a completely free plans website. So if anyone has plans they want to donate, send them over.
    Hey Kavuman - welcome to the forum, how about posting some examples of your work to give us an idea of what you can do?
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    I wonder if Wes Barwick got his answer I posted.:confused:

    I'd like to see your work too cobber!
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    Just what the web needs another free plans site. Just Google it, you'll find pretty much anything. Hmm, just checked...3.2 million results :eek:

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    Quote Originally Posted by duchampski
    Just what the web needs another free plans site. Just Google it, you'll find pretty much anything. Hmm, just checked...3.2 million results :eek:
    Yabadabadoo. but do any of them actually have free plans?
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    I visit the www.freewoodworkingplan.com site mostly its pretty good. Seems like every day they add new stuff they find. You have to surf through some of the ads though. Easy place to figure once you use it a couple times. Took me a while Just look towards the center of the page. The rest of the stuff is just ads or links to other stuff they have. I guess that's how they pay for their time...nothin in life is free. :eek:

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    Thanks for the link - I've have a hopefull look, but it looks like your link has been hijacked by a timber company (Homestead Hardwoods in Ohio)
    Last edited by channa; 14th January 2006 at 05:19 PM. Reason: The link referred to appears to be redirected
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    Quote Originally Posted by channa
    ... been hijacked ...
    I might have done a typo... try www.freewoodworkingplan.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by channa
    Hey Kavuman - welcome to the forum, how about posting some examples of your work to give us an idea of what you can do?
    Channa thanks - Here are some examples of the finished project of my plans. The plans are more detailed showing dimensions and cut diagrams. These are just finished pictures of what the plans would look like.

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    Does anyone know how you're supposed to connect the seat and the back to the horizontal beams ? Without using screws or L-braces ofcourse, just dowels and glue

    Thanks !

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    Default How I built my reitveld red blue

    If you are still looking for information I used a plan from americian woodworker as a jumping off point for my plans (april 2000) it was a good article which shows all the jigs you could make to assemble the chair in no time. They used slats for chair seat and back which I changed on mine to 2 sheets of hardwood plywood.They had the whole article online at one point by now seems to be gone.
    Here's what is still in the internet archive
    http://web.archive.org/web/200010171...4/outdoor.html


    Here is an exploded view and cut list.
    http://www.cs.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-106.2...5-09-chair.pdf

    I drilled holes on the back side of the supports that hold the siting surfaces and use dowels and glue along with a couple screws and then used wood filler. I drilled on the underside of the supports so the only way you could see the discolorations is if you are laying on the ground or flip the chair over. You can really hide the holes well, I wouldn't wory to much about it. I can upload picks of mine if you want.
    Hopes this helps if you are still working on it.

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    Just curious - Its verty cool looking work of art - is this a comfortable seat?
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