7, Peterborough Road, Harrow, -Mddx. lOth March 1972 Dear Mrs Schröder, It seems so long since I last wrote to you that I feel quite guilty about it. The trouble is, that the longer one leaves it the more guilty one feels and the more one puts off writingJ Anyway, here at long last, I am writing to you, hoping that all is well with you and that you are in good health. I would like to wish all the best to you for the year of 1972. I'm taking the opportunity of sending you an article I wrote on Rietveld for the weekly magazine 'New Society'. You may remember that this was the magazine where John Berger wrote about the Red-Blue chair at the time of the De Stijl exhibition at the Carnden Arts Centre. I very much enjoyed the Rietveld exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. It was marvellous to see all the furniture again, including several pieces that I had not seen before. The photographs of the architecture were also very good. However, I did feel that the way in which the exhibition was laid out and catalogueelwas a bit too 'architectural-hidDrical'. People who/not know Rietveld's work would have been more excited by an imaginative presentation concentrating on key works - more like Bemard Gay's exhibition at Camden. But, I did find the bedroom from Amsterdam reconstructed at the Hayward, on which you worked with Rietveld, absolutely marvellous - so restful and yet so practical. Yes, despite my crticisms of the way the show was done, there were so many wonderful things in it that this quite made up for it. I am busy trying to write a new book, called 'Art and People' - a book of essays, basically. And I hope I will be able to incorpprate a chapter on Rietveld into this. All my very best regards. Yours sincerely, oJ OvM-V)