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Wednesday 9 November '11
(from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Rietdale. Gerrit?
On Monday we took delivery of this fine
Rietdale Chair made by Harvey
Wilkinson, former curator at Blackwell. The chair is a hybrid
of the 1917 Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
and the Eskdale school of woodcarving, produced by itinerant
craftsmen in the valley of Eskdale in the English Lake District
around the same time. The Eskdale woodcarvers were never
recognised as a movement or driving force in arts and crafts , yet
their extraordinary designs in carved oak offer a proto-modernist
version of design evolved in this remote valley, like some lost
evolutionary offshoot.
Harvey has not created this piece as an art joke, but as a genuine
improvement on what he sees as a slightly clunky attempt at a
chair. The frame is built in beech, the arms in oak and the seat
and back in ply. The edition of ball and ring turning to the legs
is conceived to give the whole thing 'lift' in the traditional
manner. Further models with material variations are to be
developed and it is surprisingly comfortable.
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