Utrecht Discovery Tour: Rietveld from Workshop to House
165 min
3.1 km
10 stops
About this tour
Utrecht built De Stijl in brick and primary colour: Rietveld's chairs left the workshop and became a house. A self-guided architecture walk with quizzes in the StepQuests app.
Itinerary
10 guided stops on this route
Centraal Museum
The Centraal Museum occupies a medieval convent complex on Agnietenstraat. It holds the world's largest Rietveld collection and also manages the Rietveld Schrö…
Nicolaikerk
The Nicolaikerk was built in the early twelfth century as Utrecht's second parish church, dedicated to St Nicholas. In 1586 the south tower was raised to hold…
Maliesingel Abstede
The Maliesingel follows Utrecht's old outer moat. In the nineteenth century Zocher turned the ramparts into a park. Watch for cyclists at the bridges.
Adriaen van Ostadelaan 93
On the corner of Adriaen van Ostadelaan Rietveld opened his first furniture workshop in 1917. Around 1924 he sold the workshop to his assistant Gerard van de G…
Julianalaan 10
Julianalaan 10 is the villa of the Van der Vuurst de Vries family. They gave Rietveld a commission around the corner. The house is private; look from the stree…
Waldeck Pyrmontkade 20
On Waldeck Pyrmontkade stands the garage with chauffeur's flat that Rietveld designed in 1927-1928. He chose a method that was an early Dutch experiment in ind…
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