Paul Overy (1940–2008)

June 24 is the birthday of celebrated Dutch designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, who was born in 1888. I was made aware of his date of birth in "The Architect and Designer Birthday Book" (PA Press, 2024), in which James Biber discusses Rietveld’s furniture as well as his famous Rietveld Schröder House built in Utrecht in 1924. Biber calls the house “one of the truly funny constructions in the modern era,” since it was added to the end of a row of traditional houses “like a frozen show more explosion,” and he illustrates Rietveld’s birthday with his Red and Blue Chair (1917) photographed inside the house, much as on the cover of "The Rietveld Schröder House" by Paul Overy, Lenneke Büller, Frank den Oudsten, and Bertus Mulder. The photograph on the cover of this 1988 book was taken by den Oudsten in 1987, following a major restoration of the house led by Mulder, a former collaborator with Rietveld, who died in 1964. The book features an essay by Mulder on the restoration, an interview that Büller and den Oudsten conducted in 1982 with Rietveld’s client, Truus Schröder-Schräder (accompanied by many more photos by den Oudsten), and an introductory essay by Overy. These contributions delve into the house’s architecture, furnishings, clients, and preservation to paint a comprehensive portrait of the iconic house in a slim, 128-page package. show less

Published on the occasion of Hibernian Inscape: A selection of 12 Irish Artists exhibition at The Douglas Hyde Gallery 2 December 1980 - 4 January 1981 Artists included - Brian Bourke, James Coleman, Barrie Cooke, David Crone, Felim Egan, Adrian Hall, Willie Herron, Clement McAleer, Alanna O' Kelly, Michael O' Sullivan, Neil Shawcross and Gordon Woods

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