Crate desk | Wright
Estimated value: 7000-9000 US$
Auction:
Modernist 20 Century
Sales date: 2003-12-07
Location:
Chicago
Lot number: 222
Design
Gerrit Thomas RietveldManufacturer Metz & Co.
Architonic id
4103298
Painted pine
39.5"w x 23.5"d x 28"h
". . .a piece of furniture of fine wood, made wholly according to traditional methods, is shipped in a crate to prevent damage and breakage. Someone receiving such a crate at home says, at most: well packed. But it has never been established that such a crate represents a freely rendered method of carpentry aimed straight at its goal. The plain materials of which it is composed make it stronger than its precious contents. . .Therefore, there must finally be someone who chooses the crate instead of the piece of furniture."
Literature:
Complete Reitveld Furniture, Voge, pg. 88-89 fig 136
39.5"w x 23.5"d x 28"h
". . .a piece of furniture of fine wood, made wholly according to traditional methods, is shipped in a crate to prevent damage and breakage. Someone receiving such a crate at home says, at most: well packed. But it has never been established that such a crate represents a freely rendered method of carpentry aimed straight at its goal. The plain materials of which it is composed make it stronger than its precious contents. . .Therefore, there must finally be someone who chooses the crate instead of the piece of furniture."
Literature:
Complete Reitveld Furniture, Voge, pg. 88-89 fig 136
