This project to construct a copy of the Rietveld Red Blue chair was a complete joy and involved participation from the client. He purchased all the materials and did most of the work including the painting, which is a great challenge. It was important to obtain the precise colours, the red back is Vermillion, the blue seat Ultramarine and the yellow end grain is Cadmium Yellow.

Rietvelds ideas for the Red Blue chair, as with much of the early furniture design, centred around contemporary techniques and technology.  It is in this spirit that we elected to use a Festool Domino and its accompanying dowels rather than the round dowels specified in the original making notes. It is a discussion about paired back design; resisting all superfluous elements in design and architecture was Rietvelds ethos and MO. The restraint in this chair design is exercised to facilitate its possible mass production but for me, it also helps it achieve maximum visual impact. The chair is visually arresting from all angles and I cannot remember working on a chair design with so much negative space!