Design
Miami
booth #G23
December 4 -9, 2012
Gerrit Th. Rietveld
Richard Woods / Sebastian Wrong
Glithero
Bertjan Pot
Frank Tjepkema
For Design Miami 2012, Galerie VIVID is proud to present new contemporary
designs alongside several iconic pieces by Gerrit
Rietveld, the great Dutch furniture designer and architect.
A
highlight of the exhibition will be an unused Rietveld Red Blue chair
executed by Gerard A. van Groenekan. This chair was ordered by an American
architect in 1965 but never made it to America and was put in storage.
Almost fifty years later, the chair along with the original shipping crate
will arrive in the United States and be on display.
Galerie VIVID will debut an edition of four Bent
Wood Tables by British artist, designer Richard Woods and Sebastian
Wrong. The colorful hand-painted low tables form together an installation
that crosses boundaries between design and art.
Three new unique vases by Glithero (Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson) will VIVID present in Miami. As a follow-up to their famous Blueware Vases Glithero developed 'Silverware', a photographic technique that captures direct impressions of seaweed specimen on porcelain. The resulting images resemble abstract art from the 1950's on surfaces that echo Wedgewood's black and white Portland vase.
Also on display will be the bronze Recession Chair by Frank Tjepkema (Tjep.) and new Masks by Bertjan Pot
Mark Lee’s Favorite Work at Design Miami/ 2012
“The Red and Blue Chair is perhaps one of the most iconic design objects of the twentieth century. The way the wooden members appear to ‘slip’ past one another while floating effortlessly in space, the way the primary colors suggest a spatial extension into a larger environment, the way it single-handedly embodies the idealism of the De Stijl movement, is as refreshing and current today as almost a century ago since its inception.
What makes this particular Red and Blue chair especially intriguing is
seeing it alongside its original crate; an object reminiscent of another
furniture series by Gerrit Rietveld, designed slightly later, and is slightly
less well known but equally revolutionary: the Crate system furniture.
Made from the recycled packaging material of crate wood, Rietveld responded
to the economic crisis of the 1930's with the Crate series that could
be sold as a kit, easily shipped, and was affordable and of the utmost
simplicity and beauty.
Together, the Red and Blue chair and it’s crate turn into an art object of its own; one that encompasses two ends within the spectrum of design – one abstract and ideal, paradigmatic and heroic; the other concrete and everyday, pragmatic and anonymous – ethos that were as important at the dawn of twentieth century design as they are today.”
Mark
Lee,
Architect and Collector from Los Angeles
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