Elling Buffet Sideboard

Elling Buffet Sideboard

DESIGNED BY Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
FOR Cassina

Represents, with the Red and Blue, the essence of the new spatial concept of neoplasticism. A key benchmark in the establishment of the Modern style, this sideboard, designed in 1919, was originally used in the model home designed by J.P Oud for Spargen, Rotterdam, and in various interior design projects, including the project for P.J Elling. 

INFO

The original model was destroyed in a fire and was only rebuilt under the supervision of the designer in 1951 for an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The pure lines of the structure create a grid based on a structural core to which surfaces, drawers and storage units are added. 

The model is influenced by F.L. Wright and the Anglo-Japanese art of E.W. Godwin, particularly as regards the accentuated horizontal surfaces, which are offset by the vertical supports which form a grid from which the storage compartments are hung. The supporting grid, virtually continuous, has contrasting sections of slats that exalt their dynamism towards the exterior.

MADE IN ITALY

DIMENSIONS

2000 W x 450 D x 1020 H (mm)

CONSTRUCTION

Timber

LEAD TIME

16 - 20 Weeks

IN STOCK

RESOURCES

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Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard
Elling Buffet Sideboard

Meet the Designer

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. Most famously known for his Red and Blue chair (1917) along with other works displayed around the globe. Rietveld was one of the principal members of the Dutch Artistic Mo...

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Cassina, founded in 1927 in northern Italy's Brianza region, has been a pioneer in contemporary furniture design and man...