Berlage chair
by Richard Hutten
Description
The Berlage Chair was designed by Richard Hutten for the Grand Café of the Gemeentemuseum The Hague.Before commencing work on the Berlage Chair, Hutten searched the museum's entire Berlage collection for a model suitable to serve as a starting point for his design. Berlage’s chair for the Van Hengel family emerged as the best choice: not a chair with vertical legs, but one in which the line of the back extends through into the back legs. Hutten was struck by this element and impressed by the clarity of structure demonstrated by the entire design - something he also strives to achieve in his own work.
For the chair's upholstery, Hutten drew his inspiration from the webbing used to attach the upholstery to the underside of the seat in the original design. He focused on the apparently random way in which the webbing is attached to the frame and exaggerated this in his own design. So all the ingredients of Hutten's Berlage Chair are derived from the original.
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Specifications
Year:
2004
Material: frame: oak, colour: red, white, grey, dark green, dark brown, black
Product Size: 22.8” x 16.9” x 33.5”
Package Size: 14.4" x 11.4" x 21.7"
Package Weight: 44.1lbs.
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Material: frame: oak, colour: red, white, grey, dark green, dark brown, black
Product Size: 22.8” x 16.9” x 33.5”
Package Size: 14.4" x 11.4" x 21.7"
Package Weight: 44.1lbs.
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Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten started his own design studio in 1991, working on a variety of projects such as: furniture-, product-, interior- and exhibition design. He is one of the most internationally successful Dutch designers. His work is part of the permanent collections of, among others, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art Amsterdam, Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Philippe Starck used some of Hutten's designs for the interiors of the Delano Hotel Miami and the Mondrian Hotel Los Angeles. Richard's other clients include Hidden, DMD, Planet, Sawaya & Moroni , REEEL, E&Y Tokyo, IDÉE Tokyo, Englender UK, S.M.A.K. Iceland, Pure-design Toronto, Centraal Museum Utrecht, MOSS New York, Donna Karan New York, Maxfield Los Angeles, Karl Lagerveld, KPN telecom and HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. A book about his work 'No sign of design' was written by Ed van Hinte.
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