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GERRIT RIETVELD...

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GERRIT RIETVELD...
GERRIT RIETVELD
"BEUGELSTOEL," CA. 1930
designed 1927, manufactured by
G.A. van de Groenenkan
for Metz & Co.
tubular metal, white-lacquered laminated beech
36 in. (91.5 cm) high <P>ESTIMATE: $25,000-35,000 <P>PROVENANCE
Sam Davids (writer and editor of De Groene Amsterdamer)
S.M. Luursema-Greve (daughter-in-law of Sam Davids)
Frans Leidelmeijer, Amsterdam <P>LITERATURE
Daniele Baroni, THE FURNITURE OF GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD, Woodbury, NY, 1978, pp. 114-115
GERRIT RIETVELD, A CENTENARY EXHIBITION, exh. cat., Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 1988, p. 43, cat. no. 25
Marijke Kuper and Ida van Zijl, GERRIT TH. RIETVELD, 1888-1964: THE COMPLETE WORKS, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1992, p. 117, cat. no. 119
Peter Voge, THE COMPLETE RIETVELD FURNITURE, Rotterdam, 1993, pp. 74-75, cat. no. 92
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 CHAIRS, Cologne, 1997, p. 195 <p>Sam Davids, writer and editor of De Groene Amsterdamer, was introduced to Rietveld by his parents. He used the chair in his summer house on the coast.