An oak Zig Zag chair designed by Gerrit Thomas... Lot 581

An oak Zig Zag chair designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, manufactured by H.G.M Gerard van de Gronekan, Utrecht, four panel construction with dovetail joints and supports, impressed mark and applied paper makers label, 75cm. high Provenance The late Greta Morrison, widow of Bryan Morrison. Literature Clement Meadmore, The Modern Chair: Classics in Production, New York, page 76-79 for a comparable chair illustrated. Daniele Baroni, The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, New York, page 139 (for a period photograph of a table and chair set in a Metz & Co. exhibition in Amsterdam, 1940). Charlotte & Peter Fiell 1000 Chairs, Taschen, page 157 for a comparable example illustrated.