Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, November 28, 1992 - September 21, 1993 and at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 23 - September 27, 1993. "This complete catalogue is the result of long and intensive study o the work of Gerrit Rietveld (1888 - 1964). When in 1987 the Rietveld Schröder House and Archive were transferred to the Centraal Museum Utrecht, it was a major stimulus for research into the archives and documentation concerning Rietveld. The available material was thoroughly analysed and inventoried, with assistance from the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. At the same time, various museum and private collections were studied, while over a two-year period all the houses designed by Rietveld were visited [...] An unexpected result of this work has been the discovery of the vast range and extent of Rietveld's oeuvre. He was interested, beside architecture and design, in typography, the use of colour, and in experimenting with materials. Even before the Second World War he was involved in social housings, with standard methods of production, prefab materials and urban planning : his aim was to create neighourhoods where light and space would make life more pleasant. This publication provides a complete overview of Rietveld's multi-facetted [sic] a highly productive career. The designs that he realized as well as those never actually made have been chronologically listed. With more than seven hundred illustrations, the complete work of Rietveld is now visually accessible. In the catalogue you will also find six texts by Rietveld himself as well as a list of biographical details and a chronologically ordered bibliography." -- from interior flap. Text by Marijke Küper and Ida van Zijl. Printed in black-and-white and color.