Designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1918, Cassina's Red & Blue armchair is the result of the Dutch master's tireless research into form and colour. A sculpture with geometric and rational shapes, it is an authentic design masterpiece and one of the leading examples of Neoplasticism promoted by the Dutch De Stijl movement.
The version selected by Cassina features a black-stained beech frame with contrasting yellow details, while the seat and backrest are made of birch plywood with red and blue lacquered beech veneer edges and surfaces.
More than just a piece of furniture, the Cassina Red & Blue armchair stands out as an abstract-realist sculpture, capable of lending character and prestige to the spaces it inhabits. Its primarily aesthetic vocation translates into a philosophy of space organisation through the use of intersecting single-colour planes and volumes.
