Monday, November 14, 2005

The Rietveld Chair is Assembled

I've been sitting in the chair today and I find it more comfortable than it looks. I'm 5'12" and 165 lbs. The chair fits me like a wooden glove. It has good thigh, back and arm support for me. But the space between the armrests will be too narrow for a lot of people. The next one I make will be 3" wider to accomodate the average American.
Now I need to putty the holes. Sand and prime. Sand and prime. Undercoat and sand. Paint Black, Blue, Red, Yellow.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, The chair look very nice. I would like to know if it was hard to make and what was the hardest part?

reynolds.peter@gmail.com said...

The chair was fun to make, and there was nothing hard about it! Since the dimensions and colours of the chair have changed over the years, I took some liberties with the design: I used screws to hold the pieces together. I also cheated by having a Cabinet maker cut all the wood for me. I just had to finish the wood, screw it together, and paint it.
The hardest part was finding the correct colour paint.

reynolds.peter@gmail.com said...

The plans are now available for download as a .pdf file from the sidebar.