Gerrit Rietveld - Weelde van de eenvoud / Wealth of Sobriety

A huge monograph dedicated to Gerrit Rietveld, perhaps the most well-known Dutch architect. Besides his iconic Schröder House, very little is known about the roughly 100 houses Rietveld designed and built during his career. These houses are characterised by light and space, and sobriety is a basic principle in his approach. Only a small group of intellectual clients commissioned him to design an avant-garde residence. Photographer Arjan Bronkhorst went in search of these unknown houses, photographing their interiors and residents, while authors Willemijn Zwikstra, Marc van den Eerenbeemt and Ida van Zijl explored archives and interviewed current residents about living in a Rietveld house. ///

Architect Gerrit Rietveld bouwde bijna honderd huizen. Fotograaf Arjan Bronkhorst - van bestseller boek Grachtenhuizen - speurde twee jaar naar de onbekende huizen van Nederlands bekendste architect. Hij fotografeerde er zelfs één in Amerika. Ook de bewoners, soms nog directe opdrachtgevers van Rietveld, zijn door hem vereeuwigd in dit unieke werk.