Sonneveld House
Functionalist nineteen-thirties villa with Gispen furniture and pioneering household gadgets.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sonneveld House in Rotterdam follows Albertus Sonneveld, a director of the Van Nelle company, from his first trip to America at twenty-four to the home he commissioned from Brinkman and Van der Vlugt in nineteen twenty-nine. It looks at what a man fond of hotel luxury asked of his architects, and at the household gadgets that made this a very modern place to live in the nineteen thirties. Best heard on Jongkindstraat, facing the long bands of window.
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