Zig-Zag Chair
Illustration — Zig Zag Chair in the Carnegie Museum of Art The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld sometime between 1932 and 1934. It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by four flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed and bolted or screwed joints. It was designed for Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and is now produced under license in Cherry or Ash by the Italian manufacturer Cassina S.p.A, and others as unlicensed knock-offs.
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Illustration — Zig Zag Chair in the Carnegie Museum of Art The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld sometime between 1932 and 1934. It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by four flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed and bolted or screwed joints. It was designed for Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and is now produced under license in Cherry or Ash by the Italian manufacturer Cassina S.p.A, and others as unlicensed knock-offs.
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Type of chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld
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1932
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1932
Zig-Zag Chair is recorded from 1932.
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