We didn't avoid older styles because they were ugly, or because we couldn't reproduce them, but because our own times demanded their own form, I mean, their own manifestation. It was of course extremely difficult to achieve all this in spite of the building regulations and that's why the interior of the downstairs part of the house is somewhat traditional, I mean with fixed walls. But upstairs we simply called it and 'attic' and that's where we actually made the house we wanted."
—Gerrit Rietveld. from Paul Overy, Lenneke BŸller, Frank den Oudsten, Bertus Mulder. The Rietveld Schroder House. p73.