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THE RED AND BLUE CHAIR

The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions and features several Rietveld joints .It was not painted its distinct colors until the early 1920s. Multiple versions of the chair exist and are housed in various collections.

In Rietveld's instructions on how to build the chair, he informs the craftsperson to print the following verse from Der Aesthet by Christian Morgenstern and attach it under the seat:

"Wenn Ich sitze, möchte Ich nicht

sitzen, wie Mein Sitzfleisch möchte

sondern wie Mein Sitzgeist sich,

säße er, den Stuhl sich flöchte."

Which means;

"When I sit, I do not want

to sit like my seat-flesh likes

but rather like my seat-mind would,

if he were sitting, weave the chair for himself."

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