Stoel
Like Rietveld, Sybolt van Ravensteyn was a furniture-maker as well as an architect. Rietveld tipped off his colleague that a plot was available at 112 Prins Hendriklaan, close to the Rietveld-Schröder house. In 1932, Ravesteyn designed a villa with wavy lines, graceful and playful: a worthy counterpart to the austere, sober de Stijl building at number 50. Remarkably, a few years earlier, Ravesteyn had designed this unmistakably De Stijl-like chair, venturing outside of his comfort zone perhaps. [text 2023]