This style originated in the Netherlands during the early 1900s as a rejection of ArtDeco, a highly decorative style which the people started to dislike. The style promoted harmony using simple forms and primary colours.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is one of the most well know architects of this style. Besides architecture he focused on furniture design as well. Mostly knwn for the Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House. The red and blue chair created in 1918, is a chair constructed using simple shapes (squares and rectangles) and primary colours mainly red and blue as the name itself suggests. Retivield built the chair using only wood and he didn’t pay much attention to ergonomics since it doesn’t seem to look comfortable for the human body at all. Meanwhile the Schroder House was also designed by him along side Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder. With similar qualities to the international style this small flat roofed house , has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site
http://www.moma.org/collection/works/4044
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld_Schröder_House
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