The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has been building a collection of applied arts and design since 1934, and furniture is one of its most significant subsections. With designs from circa 1850 to the present, this collection places the accent on the twentieth century and now includes more than 1,000 objects: chairs, sofas, tables, cabinets, screens, and sets of furniture. It is one of Europe's largest and most comprehensive collections in the field of modern furniture design.
This well designed publication provides a complete catalogue of the collection. Alongside the many examples of Gerrit Rietveld's furniture, this collection includes pieces by other Dutch designers, such as H.P.Berlage, K.P.C.de Bazel, Piet Kramer, Martin Visser, Gijs Bakker, Piet Hein Eek, Ineke Hans and Marcel Wanders. The collection also includes many international classics designed, for example, by Michael Thonet, Charlotte Perriand, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Joe Colombo, Charles & Ray Eames, Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck and Ron Arad.