Gerrit Rietveld - The original Bracket chair for Metz & Co

These bracket chairs were sold at Metz & Co in Amsterdam and The Hague from 1931 onwards. (The design is from 1927).

This is the low version. The seat shell is made of (lacquered) bent plywood and the base is made of painted tubular material. Pipe material became increasingly stronger in those years and therefore also, when bent, suitable as a base.
But the curved plywood seat shell is certainly also very special.
The Bracket Chair was first used in the Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht and later was the first Rietveld Chair put into production for sale at Metz & Co.


Origin:
My grandfather, Ir. CW Hulsbergen, was already good friends with Binnert Schröder, the son of Truus Schröder, during his studies in Delft and regularly rode on the back of Binnert's motorcycle to Utrecht. He stayed there overnight in the glass bedroom in the Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht and traveled to his parental home in Drenthe the next day.
The chair has been in the family for a long time and unfortunately we do not know whether this chair comes from the Rietveld-Schröder House itself or was purchased/given as a gift from Metz & Co. It could also have been a wedding gift (my grandparents married in 1939).
In any case, it is certain that the chair was already in the family before the war.

We now offer this chair and hope that it will end up in a nice collection!