The famous red and blue chair in "Kaiwen Look at Design Series"
Product Name: Classic Red and Blue Chair
Brand: Cassina cassina
Designer: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
This is the famous red and blue chair in the history of design. In order to echo the Lotek desk lamp introduced in the previous article, we will open the classic red and blue chair in the history of design for you.

"Red and Blue Chair" is one of the most famous masterpieces of the Dutch style. It was designed by Ritveld under the influence of "Style" magazine. This chair had a great influence on Bauhaus. There was no coloring at the beginning of its publication, and the coloring version was not shown for the first time until 1923. We can see that this chair is composed of 13 wooden strips perpendicular to each other to form the spatial structure of the chair. Screw fastening is used instead of traditional mortise connection to prevent damage to the structure. It is also characterized by using simple and bright colors and geometric forms to complete the three-dimensional translation of painter Mondrian's work "Red, Yellow and Blue", which has changed people's traditional understanding of chairs and gradually moved towards the diversified design of chairs. road.

The rational design of "Red and Blue Chair" is inherently related to the designer's reflection and confrontation on the First World War. In form, it is a three-dimensional translation of mondrian's (PietMondrian,1872-1944) work "Red, Yellow and Blue. The artist is known for exploiting color relationships in an uneven grid to achieve visual balance. Ritveld said, "The structure should serve the coordination between the components to ensure the independence and integrity of each component. In this way, the whole can be freely and clearly erected in space, and the form can be abstracted from the material. The spatial structure created by Ritveld in this design can be said to be an open structure, which points to a kind of "totality", a kind of formal integrity that is separated from the material.
Functionally speaking, this chair is uncomfortable, but through the display, it proves that the final form of the product depends on the structure. Designers can give functions a poetic realm, which is an interpretation of industrial aesthetics. Moreover, this standardized component provides the potential for future mass production of furniture. Its distinctive modern form finally got rid of the influence of traditional style furniture and became the prediction of independent modernist trend. Therefore, the Red and Blue Chair, which embodies the philosophical spirit and aesthetic pursuit of the stylitic school, has become a very important milestone work in the form exploration of modernism. It has a profound impact on the entire modernist design movement.

Life is regarded as a hero, and death is also a ghost. Looking back at the design masters, they went against the current in their own age and environment, and only then did these classic works last forever. This is the direction that our later design practitioners should pursue!

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