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The chair was part of the original furnishings of the dining room in her house ('De Vlerken') in Bergen (The Netherlands), the interior of which was designed by Rietveld in 1931.  A published illustration shows a set of at least five of these chairs in the room. \r\n\r\nThe chair was designed in 1927, and forms part of a group of chairs made of tubular steel (the prototype was made of iron) with single-piece plywood seats.  With this, Rietveld joined the trend among avant-garde architects of designing furniture in tubular steel.  His particular innovation was the use of the single-piece back and seat, a design idea which Alvar Aalto would develop further a few years later.  The chair was designed for mass production and, starting about 1930, production began for the Metz & Co department store.  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