Rietveld - Steltman Chair

This came up in a meeting recently and its well worth an outing on the blog. Rietveld's Red and Blue chair is his most iconic piece but the Steltman Chair is different, it feels very honest to me. The ''4x2 section is evocative of construction rather than furniture, it feels fast and dynamic, like a 3D sketch. But the result of this bold form on the negative space around, under and between the object is very beautiful. The Steltman came forty years after the red and blue chair, when Rietveld was in his seventies, and his experience shows through. A concise yet fluid object which keeps giving me more, the more i look.