Hector Guimard’s Paris Métropolitain

April 28, 2020

When I traveled to Paris in the 1980s as a teenager, I fell madly in love with the Métro entrances. …

Hunting Lodge St. Hubertus, Berlage’s Gesamtkunstwerk

June 25, 2019

On the last day of summer in 2018 (a beautiful 13th of October!) I visited Hunting Lodge Saint Hubertus, one of …

August 22, 2018

A few weeks ago I received an incredibly interesting book in the mail. The book is called Two Dutch architects …

February 28, 2018

At the moment Dutch author Peter van Dam (1948) is working on a monumental project: he is writing a series …

February 16, 2014

The other day, after I accidentally surfed into a 2012 Art Nouveau building in Amsterdam, I figured it would be …

November 25, 2013

In April, I wrote about 2013 being the 150th birth year of Henry van de Velde and I listed the activities taking …

July 4, 2013

As a genuine Art Nouveau lover, the Horta Museum had been high on my wish list for quite some time. …

April 2, 2013

Today is my birthday. And I am in good company, because today is also the 150th birthday of Henry van …

September 15, 2012

For the last two months, I have been digging in the architectural history of my home-town Dordrecht, and the more …