Utrecht Armchair

Utrecht Armchair replica. The juxtaposition of right angles ‒ backrest and seat that meet at the floor and armrests that morph into support pieces ‒ are hallmark features of the Utrecht armchair, which became a symbol of the Neoplastic movement. Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Thomas Rietveld created the Utrecht armchair in 1935, originally for a department store in Amsterdam called Metz&Co. He named the armchair after the city in which he was born