Cassina – Gerrit Rietveld – Bijzetstoel – Zigzag Stoel – Kersenhout – Nr. 3387

A vintage Zig Zag side chair by Cassina, produced in the 1980s in beautifully figured cherry wood and marked underneath. A Gerrit Rietveld design that never lost any of its force. This famous silhouette still reads as one of the boldest gestures in 20th-century furniture: a chair reduced to the barest possible idea of sitting, yet entirely resolved.Designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the early 1930s, the Zig Zag was radical from the moment it appeared. It seemed almost impossible, a chair without conventional legs, built as a single angular movement in space. What looks delicate is in fact remarkably stable, and that tension between visual lightness and structural intelligence remains the heart of the design. Few chairs are so instantly recognizable, and fewer still feel this modern nearly a century later.This 1980s Cassina example has particular warmth thanks to the cherry wood. The woodgrain is especially decorative, with a lively striped pattern that softens the geometry and gives the piece a richer, more sensual surface. In certain light, the planes almost seem to shift tone, making the chair feel both disciplined and expressive at once.The chair is structurally sound. It shows cosmetic wear consistent with age and use, including scratches... lees verder bij Catawiki