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Storage Cabinet No. 663

Wim Rietveld, 1953

This cabinet belongs to a series of ‘furniture for the modest interior’ with which the manufacturer Gispen responded to the need for inexpensive and light furniture in the post-war Netherlands. The nine standard elements could be endlessly varied. The tenth ‘element’ was the colour in a palette based on the De Stijl movement. An ordinary cabinet could thus be transformed into playful space-colour composition.

  • Artwork typecase furniture
  • Object numberBK-2017-36
  • Dimensionsheight 136 cm x width 126 cm x depth 33 cm
  • Physical characteristicssteel, paint

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Storage Cabinet No. 663

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-2017-36

  • Description

    Kast van grijs gemoffelde metalen staanders en leggers voorzien van verschillende kleuren horizontaal scharnierende klepdeuren (acht vakken met twee rode, twee gele, twee witte en twee grijsblauwe kleppen).

Creation

  • Creation

    • designer: Wim Rietveld
    • factory (organization): Gispen, Culemborg

  • Dating

    1953

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    steel, paint

  • Dimensions

    height 136 cm x width 126 cm x depth 33 cm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Transfer Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed

  • Copyright

    erven Gerrit Thomas Rietveld/Pictoright

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