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Gerrit Rietveld, Schröder House, Utrecht, Holland, 1924, Photo by HB, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.

Gerrit Rietveld’s Schröder House: Perfect Harmony in a Home

In 1917, Gerrit Rietveld joined Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg to form De Stijl, a utopian art movement.  For these artists, the goal of art was perfect balance and harmony and the means was abstraction.  They wanted to create … Continue reading