A homage to Gerrit Rietveld – a reimagining of his iconic Red Blue Chair (1918). Architecture and art, distilled into a single piece of furniture.
An open framework of slats and planes that doesn't fill a room but articulates it. Rietveld's original design began as a bare wood prototype – unfinished, structural, radically honest. Only later came the primary colours of the De Stijl movement: red, blue, yellow, black. The chair became a manifesto – a three-dimensional painting in which Mondrian's visual language and architectural thinking merged inseparably.
Think Twice returns to the origin. Solid hardwood, dark and warm. No colour, no ornament – just construction, proportion and material. At the same time, the concept is extended: the single seat becomes a bench for two. The iconic structure stretches, doubles its backrests, gains presence – and creates something the original never was: a place of togetherness.
The new span demands new statics. The cross-sections of the wooden slats have been structurally enlarged to carry the breadth of a two-seater – without sacrificing the visual lightness of the original. Proportions shift, but the grammar remains: slats that intersect without merging. Planes that float within the frame. Every component legible, every joint visible.
And then the decisive step outside. Rietveld's chair was an interior object – conceived for enclosed rooms, controlled contexts. Think Twice breaks free. The bench steps out, from living room to terrace, from interior to garden. Inside-out: a piece of furniture born for the indoors finds its new place under open sky – where architecture meets landscape.
The result: Rietveld's radical idea – built further, not repeated. Wood. Structure. Two seats. Outdoors. Enough.
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