Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924
Chair, c. 1924

Sybold van Ravesteyn

Chair, c. 1924

Black and white lacquered wood.

H. 88.5 x L. 44 x P. 50 cm
H. 35 x W. 17.25 x D. 19.75 in


In 1925, Van Ravesteyn presented his work at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. Among the pieces shown was a black-and-white chair, as part of a bedroom set for the Dutch patron and bibliophile René Radermacher Schorer in Utrecht. His black-and-white chair, designed in December 1924, also drew the attention of Irish designer Eileen Gray, who exhibited it in her Paris gallery, Jean Désert.

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SYBOLD VAN RAVESTEYN

1889 - 1983

“Architecture possesses a form of enchantment specific to form, space, material, and color, which has nothing to do with utility and brings it closer to the liberal arts.”

Sybold van Ravesteyn (1889–1983), a civil engineer who graduated from the Delft Polytechnic School in 1912, began his career with Staatsspoorwegen, the Dutch national railway company. From 1918 onward, based in Utrecht in the center of the Netherlands, he assisted architect George W. van Heukelom in the design and construction of the company’s main offices...

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