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'impressive ... engaging and highly accessible' Self Build & Design 'Another beautifully produced monograph from Phaidon ... a great introduction to Rietveld's beautiful Modernist aesthetic' Grafik commenting on the fact that the book's designer, Wim Crouwel, is a former pupil at the Rietveld Academy, they add - [a] very handsome book. It displays an enviable lightness of touch, and is a good example of what happens when a designer really engages with his subject matter. We reckon Mr Rietveld would have been proud.' Grafik

'impressive ... engaging and highly accessible' Self Build & Design 'Another beautifully produced monograph from Phaidon ... a great introduction to Rietveld's beautiful Modernist aesthetic' Grafik commenting on the fact that the book's designer, Wim Crouwel, is a former pupil at the Rietveld Academy, they add - [a] very handsome book. It displays an enviable lightness of touch, and is a good example of what happens when a designer really engages with his subject matter. We reckon Mr Rietveld would have been proud.' Grafik

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Ida van Zijl is deputy director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the holder of the main collection of Rietveld's work. Since the late 1970s, she has studied Rietveld and has complete access not only to the museum's collection of documents, but also to those held by his family and friends. She was the editor of Gerrit Rietveld: The Complete Works (published in 1992), a catalogue of his work.

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