Jul 4, 2019
Model of the Schroeder House, Gerrit Rietveld.
One of my favourite objects at the V&A Museum of Childhood.
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Model of the Schroeder House, Gerrit Rietveld.
One of my favourite objects at the V&A Museum of Childhood.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCG4mbCbck)
Gerrit Rietveld, The first model made from a block of wood of the Schröder House, 1924
Imagine a house with no walls. As you grow and develop, and as your family expands, the panels which separate the rooms slide to create new living spaces. In this house, there is no social hierarchy. Each room may serve a plurality of purposes. The idea of social organization inherent in most contemporary structures is here destroyed. Regardless of the direction in which the panels are slid, the rooms remain the same size. Imagine a house built with the idea in mind that no trace of the past should be manifest this structure. Only the simplest geometric forms, squares, rectangles, straight lines, are used. It should in no way make one harken back to another period; it should in no way introduce earlier elements of style; it should in no way be a cultural object.
deconstructing notions of perspective - it distorts reality
rietveld's attempt to re-present
create equality within and through space
Schröder House, Geritt Rietveld, 1924
02. A woman's modern declaration. The Schröder house became the "luxury of frugality" for it's owner and co-designer Truus Schröder, a client with firmly ideas on how a modern woman should live her own life.
The Rietveld Schröder House - what a place. It's hard to believe this is from 1924 at first.
I'm stuck in overdue work hell, and while it's excrutiating, I also have a really interesting topic. Like why the fuck are tumblr feminists not all over Truus Schröder-Schräder and her sister, An?
Taken from a source I'm using:
An Harrenstein-Schräder, a writer and art critic, was married to a doctor and lived in Amsterdam. Through her Truus was introduced to a circle of artists who held far greater interest for her than the bourgeois Utrecht society in which she lived. This group included Jacob Bendien (who lived with the Harrensteins for many years and was, in all probability, An's lover), Paul Citroen (Bendien's brother-in-law), Charley Toorop, Theo van Doesburg, and other members of the De Stijl circle, as well as visiting artists such as Bruno Taut and Kurt Schwitters, and left-wing politicians and members of the Dutch Communist party. Their interests stretched beyond art and politics to include spirituality (in particular, Theosophy), meditation, free love, and women's rights. These were the people to whom Truus Schröder looked for intellectual and artistic stimulation, but theirs was a world far removed from Utrecht and the Biltstraat apartment, with its heavy, dark furniture, and high-ceilinged, formal rooms, in which she spent her days as the wife of a successful lawyer.
(Alice Friedman, Women and the Making of the Modern House)
Then Truus, after her husband's death, goes on to commission this amazing fucking house from this really unique architect, Gerrit Rietveld.
This house was revolutionary, and basically everything in it allowed for the house to be used for whatever purpose Truus might need it for, since she entertained lots of visiting artists and left-wing politicians.
There are no rooms, basically. There are all these sliding partitions that let her switch up the layout.
She also wanted this because she wanted her three kids to be involved in the arts and exposed to these creative leaders.
Another awesome thing is that her daughter, Han, went on to be an architect who taught in American universities, and was a big part of the house's restoration in the 80s.
I could go on but I gotta get back to my paper.
But it's pretty cool shit.
Gerrit Rietveld ( 1888-1964. UTRECHT.The Netherlands)
(Photo source: © Galerie Vivid )
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