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24th December 2005, 01:41 PM #1New Member
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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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25th December 2005, 06:30 PM #2Originally Posted by Wes Barwick
Red & Blue chair (1918)-
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
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!"
C. St.John Wilson
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25th December 2005, 06:42 PM #3Originally Posted by Wes Barwick
its a USA site.
CheersIf you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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13th January 2006, 02:09 AM #4New Member
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Plans
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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13th January 2006, 11:02 PM #5Originally Posted by kavumanJudge not lest you're judging yourself
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13th January 2006, 11:46 PM #6
I wonder if Wes Barwick got his answer I posted.:confused:
I'd like to see your work too cobber!If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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14th January 2006, 07:47 AM #7New Member
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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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14th January 2006, 10:28 AM #8Originally Posted by duchampskiJudge not lest you're judging yourself
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14th January 2006, 11:54 AM #9New Member
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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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14th January 2006, 05:15 PM #10
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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14th January 2006, 11:50 PM #11New Member
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Originally Posted by channa
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21st January 2006, 03:05 AM #12New Member
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Originally Posted by channa
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21st January 2006, 04:14 AM #13Novice
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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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31st January 2006, 03:06 PM #14New Member
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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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30th March 2006, 05:04 PM #15
Just curious - Its verty cool looking work of art - is this a comfortable seat?
Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter
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