Gerrit Rietveld (1884-1964), Dutch furniture maker and architect, famous by his Red and Blue Chair and the Rietveld-Schröder house in Utrecht. Rietveld designed this pavilion for the display of sculptures at the Third International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnhem’s Sonsbeek Park. This ‘Sonsbeek Pavilion’ was intended as a temporary structure, and it was dismantled when the exhibition was over. However, many people had been greatly impressed by its simplicity, and 10 years later, on the initiative of several Dutch architects, the building found a permanent home in the Kröller-Müller Museum’s sculpture garden, under a new name: the ‘Rietveld Pavilion’. On 8 May 1965 the pavilion was officially inaugurated with an exhibition of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth. The museum has rebuild the structure in 2010 with new materials, while adhering as closely as possible to Rietveld’s original design. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIqxhMcO89E
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