Rietveld Chair

Designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1918 and later finished in its iconic palette, it translates the ideas of the De Stijl movement into three dimensions. Planes of black, lines of yellow, and blocks of red and blue intersect with absolute clarity, reducing furniture to its most essential elements.

Graphic, radical, and still oddly playful over a century later, it remains one of the purest expressions of modern design.