The house that dared to be furniture — and the lovers who built it.
In 2024, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Gerrit Rietveld designed and built the house in close collaboration with his secret lover and creative partner Truus Schröder. Rietveld himself did not build his houses for eternity; he thought a life cycle of 50 years was sufficient. But the current owners of houses designed by Rietveld think differently about this. They pull out all the stops to renovate and preserve their Rietveld houses.
Direction
Reitsma lets space breathe like Rietveld intended
Production
Archival audio intimacy — eavesdropping on genius
Cinematography
Worshipful angles that mirror the house's own geometry
Director
Lex Reitsma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Rietveld Schröder House is UNESCO-listed, yet its creator never wanted permanence — a delicious contradiction.
Rietveld and Schröder's hidden romance mirrors the house itself: radical, private, and structurally daring for 1924.
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