Dutch Design Double Amsterdam And Utrecht: Gerrit Rietveld Year
Geschreven op 22-8-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Design
From aircraft interior to red-blue chair. Dutch Design Double 2010 focuses on designer Gerrit Rietveld.
Amsterdam and Utrecht host throughout the 1st of September until the 31st of October 2010 a great variety of internationally orientated design events.
Both cities are joining forces to create a handpicked selection of design and new media projects. The exhibition ‘Rietveld’s Universe’ at the Centraal Museum, a Rietveldconcert by C-mon & Kypski, the winners of the HEMA warehouse design competition, the Woonbeurs Amsterdam and other design activities can be seen under the umbrella Dutch Design Double. 2010 has been proclaimed as international Rietveld Year. Therefore Dutch Design Double focuses on the Utrecht architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) whose work includes over a hundred buildings and many pieces of furniture and was a major influence on the development of architects and designers.
Dutch Design Double starts in Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam at September 1st with a talk show hosted by the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) and Items magazine. With among others curators Ida van Zijl and Ingeborg de Roode, designer Richard Hutten and Rietveld’s grandson Egbert Rietveld. The Centraal Museum places Rietveld’s work in a broad context with the exhibition ‘Rietveld’s Universe‘. The Stedelijk Museum presents a symposium on the aluminum Rietveld chairs. Expect a Rietveldroom at the design event of the magazine ELLE Wonen ‘Inside Design’, a Rietveldconcert by C-mon & Kypski or admire the work of Rietveld in an aircraft or home of his hand.
Besides all Rietveld activities Dutch Design Double shows an overview of designactivities in Amsterdam and Utrecht in September and October, such as 10 years Via Milano New Dutch Design, furniture from old scaffolding banners at Re:Frame, the winners of the HEMA warehouse design competition, items of bankrupt companies re-designed by Dutch designers ‘Saved by Droog’, lectures concentrating on the role that modernism plays in art and culture today ‘MODERNISMTODAY’ and Woonbeurs Amsterdam in the RAI.
