Modernist Hopmi Chair by Gerrit Rietveld Limited Edition Official Reproduction

At the initiative of architect Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten the Hopmi chair by Rietveld has been reproduced with the permission of Gerrit Rietveld’s heirs in a limited edition of 250. This is number 216 of 250 (2013/2).
We also have number 216 on stock, which has a small damage.

Rietveld designed the Hopmi chair in 1932. The two copies were thought to be lost until in 2008 Professor Lanjouw’s heir delivered a bag with steel pipes, screws and pieces of plywood to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The individual pieces were identified in the museum as parts of the missing Hopmi chair. Although only two copies were originally made, the Hopmi chair clearly expresses Rietveld’s ideal of industrial production. The chair consists of six steel tubes connected by special ‘torpedo nuts.’ The radical simplicity and the patented nuts give the chair a powerful, constructivist appearance. Materials: chromed steel and plywood. The chair is constructed exactly as in the original drawings from the archive of the Centraal Museum.