Image source: Cassina — Elling Buffet
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Elling Buffet
Elling Buffet: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld's 1919 neoplastic sideboard, built by Cassina in ash.
2000 × 1020 × 450 mm
1919
Official product information
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Overview
The Elling Buffet is a sideboard designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1919, produced by Cassina in its carpentry in Meda in collaboration with the designer's heirs. It is part of the Cassina iMaestri Collection.
Construction
- Frame: solid ash and veneered plywood; the sheet lists solid wood for the structure.
- Storage and doors: beech plywood veneered in ash, with solid wood doors and decorative slats.
- Feet: black plastic slides.
- Joinery: assembled exclusively through wood dowel joints.
Specifications
- 2000 x 450 x 1020 mm (model 636).
Story
New spatiality
Cassina describes the sideboard as the essence of the new spatiality of neoplasticism, alongside the Red and Blue armchair, and as a key benchmark in the affirmation of modern design.
Rebuilt in 1951
The text says it was first used in the model home designed by J.P. Oud for Spangen in Rotterdam and in interiors including the project for P.J. Elling. The original model was destroyed in a fire and was rebuilt under the designer's supervision in 1951 for an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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