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S-039
year 1927
material wood
source title the complete rietveld furniture
info Designed for the Birza family of Amsterdam, the chair is made of a single sheet of fibreboard, or Vulkanfiber, as it was originally known. To Rietveld, the one-piece chair was the optimum in machine-oriented furniture design. Long after creating the Birza Chair, the first one-piece chair he ever realised, Rietveld continued to design one-piece chairs. Compared to early photographs, the chair shown here has more rounded corners.
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year 1927
material wood
source title the complete rietveld furniture
info Designed for the Birza family of Amsterdam, the chair is made of a single sheet of fibreboard, or Vulkanfiber, as it was originally known. To Rietveld, the one-piece chair was the optimum in machine-oriented furniture design. Long after creating the Birza Chair, the first one-piece chair he ever realised, Rietveld continued to design one-piece chairs. Compared to early photographs, the chair shown here has more rounded corners.
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