The Barcelona Chair, designed by Mies Van der Rohe in black leather Its simple elegance and graceful profile has made it a widely celebrated modern lounge chair that epitomises der Rohe’s most famous axiom, ‘Less is more.’įrom the hand-buffed steel frame to the individual leather squares carefully welted together, the Barcelona Chair is a chair that pays tribute to the marriage of modern design and exceptional craftsmanship. We find two neat rows either side of a coffee table in Green’s front room.ĭesigned by Mies Van der Rohe and manufactured by Knoll this chair is surely one of the most recognised objects of the last century. Two rows of Barcelona Chairs sit opposite each other in Jordan Green’s house in Promising Young Woman Hoping that much of his furniture would eventually be mass-produced rather than handcrafted, Rietveld aimed for simplicity in construction.Ĭontact us for information and current prices for newly produced and vintage versions of the Rietveld chair. Red and Blue chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld.Īlthough the chair was originally designed in 1918, its colour scheme of primary colours (red, yellow, blue) plus black-so closely associated with the Dutch de Stijl art and architecture movement-was applied around 1923. In the Red Blue Chair, Rietveld manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and horizontal planes in much the same way as he did in his architecture. ![]() Jordan Green’s house in Promising Young Woman featuring the Red Blue Rietveld chairĪ sculptural seat with a pure and rationalist form, the Rietveld chair design became an authentic Manifesto for Neoplasticism, embraced by the Dutch De Stijl movement in 1917. During the film she visits the house of disgraced attorney Jordan Green (Alfred Molina) which sent us into major furniture-spotting mode!įirst up in this trilogy of Jordan Green’s notable furniture in Promising Young Woman is the Red and Blue chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld. In black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman we follow Cassie’s ( Carey Mulligan) journey to avenge the death of her best friend. Furniture spotting in Promising Young Woman
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