Gerrit Rietveld chair research

the famous chair designed and by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917. it represents one of the first chairs made in the De Stijl art movement in a 3-D. the chair was made out of beech wood, however the actual chair was not painted until the early 1920s, before this rietveld decided to keep the chair plain however a memeber of de stijl architect Bart Van Der Leck, saw his original model of the chair and gave him the idea to paint the chair with bright colors. Rietveld then built another new model out of a thinner wood named lacquered wood and painted the chair entirely black with with areas across the chair cover in primary colors aimed towards the de stijl movement with the use of the color scheme of red yellow blue and black with the main colors of red black and blue which gives it the name of the "red and blue chair". the colors had a strange effect on the chair as when it was placed against a black wall the base of the chair seemed to disappear giving an almost transparent look, because of this the chair look as if it was floating.