minale-maeda: rietveld LEGO buffet for droog
COMMENT: I started as an industrial designer and have loved the ‘simplicity’ of rietveld and can see the complexity a little clearer because of this work.
minale-maeda: rietveld LEGO buffet for droog
gerrit rietveld buffet executed in LEGO
dutch based design duo minale-maeda (kuniko maeda and mario minale)
playfully reprise
gerrit rietveld’s grace to reconsider his de stijl masterwork, ‘buffet’
for dutch design company
droog. the ‘rietveld LEGO buffet’ uses over 25, 000 pieces of LEGO,
updating the de stijl’s call
for simplified materials through the use of the iconic toy building
blocks known to us as children,
creating a re-iteration of one of modern design’s most relevant
historical suggestions.
the buffet comes in a numbered edition of 5.
gerrit rietveld buffet executed in LEGO
details
mario minale working on the construction of the buffet
lego pieces all laid out
buffet production in progress
the rietveld via LEGO, buffet is on show as part of droog’s presentation
at
design miami / basel 2010 from june 15th – 19th, located at booth
G28, hall 5,
messe basel, messeplatz.
the buffet is a continuation of mario minale’s 2004 rendition of
rietveld’s red blue chair,
also done in LEGO.
‘red blue LEGO chair’ by mario minale
this LEGO version of the iconic ‘red blue chair’ by gerrit rietveld is
6% larger because
it is goverened by the LEGO brick size. the chair was produced in the
spirit of rietveld’s
original intention to make the design widely available, however,
copyright laws prevented
this LEGO version from being mass produced.
detail
all images courtesy of minale-maeda studio
