Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld born June 24, 1888, Utrecht, Neth. died June 25, 1964, Utrecht Dutch architect and furniture designer notable for his application of the tenets of the de Stijl movement. The Utrecht designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is regarded as a luminary of the De Stijl movement and created ground-breaking works both in architecture as well as in furniture design.