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The Restorations of the Rietveld Schröder House

a reflection

Review (2019)
Authors

Marie-Thérèse van Thoor (Heritage & Values)

Research Group
Heritage & Values
To reference this document use:
https://doi.org/10.7480/knob.118.2019.2.3850
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
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Research Group
Heritage & Values
Issue number
2
Volume number
118
Pages (from-to)
15-31
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7480/knob.118.2019.2.3850
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Abstract

The Rietveld Schröder House (1924) in Utrecht is the only private home among the ten UNE SCO World Heritage sites in the Netherlands. In 1987 it was opened to the public as a museum house and since 2013 it has been part of the collection of Utrecht's Centraal Museum. The world-famous house was designed by the architect Gerrit T. Rietveld (1888-1964) in close collaboration with the client, Truus Schröder-Schräder (1889-1985). During the 1970s and '80s the house was comprehensively restored by the architect Bertus Mulder (b. 1929), who had worked with Rietveld for a brief period in the early 1960s. Thanks to a Keeping it Modern Grant from the Getty Foundation these restorations have now been put on a sound scientific footing by means of archival research, technical analysis and oral history.