Schröder House 1924
Utrecht, Netherlands
People walking by this street will definitely feel like they are in front of a three-dimensional version of one of Mondrian’s paintings. They won’t be much mistaken, what they are looking at is Schröder House, designed by the architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld, who together with Piet Mondrian was part of the De Stijl art movement.
How it all began?
When Mrs. Truss Schröder a widowed, she decided to move to a new property. She gave Gerrit Rietveld the commission of her new house in 1924, in which she wanted to express his vision of how a woman should live in a modern and independent way. She actively participated in the design of the house and its furnitures and lived there for 60 years until her death in 1984.
Rietvield, meanwhile used this as the opportunity to use the concepts of the De Stijl or Neoplasticism Movement, which was based on the abstraction of all forms into orthogonal lines and planes, and all the chromatic palette into primary colours of black and white.
Rietveld Schröder House has a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2 December 2000.
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