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Gerrit Rietveld, the lost designer

There are many names associated with the early 20th-century boom in design. Rockstars like Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright immediately come to mind, but for every major player you can bet there are dozens of equally talented designers, artists and architects whose names don’t flow as quickly from our 21st-century tongues. One of those whose legacy remains known amongst industry professionals only is Gerrit Rietveld, but they’re trying to fix that.