Hector Guimard: How Paris got its Curves
Exhibition about Hector Guimard in New York and Chicago At the moment, there is a wonderful exhibition about Hector Guimard …
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Hector Guimard’s Paris Métropolitain
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
On the last day of summer in 2018 (a beautiful 13th of October!) I visited Hunting Lodge Saint Hubertus, one of …
Two Dutch Architects in Paris
A few weeks ago I received an incredibly interesting book in the mail. The book is called Two Dutch architects …
W.B. van Liefland (1857-1919)
At the moment Dutch author Peter van Dam (1948) is working on a monumental project: he is writing a series …
Do today’s architects still have what it takes?
The other day, after I accidentally surfed into a 2012 Art Nouveau building in Amsterdam, I figured it would be …
Passion – Function – Beauty
In April, I wrote about 2013 being the 150th birth year of Henry van de Velde and I listed the activities taking …
Horta Museum, Brussels
As a genuine Art Nouveau lover, the Horta Museum had been high on my wish list for quite some time. …
Henry van de Velde (1863-1957)
Today is my birthday. And I am in good company, because today is also the 150th birthday of Henry van …
H.A. Reus (1872-1935)
For the last two months, I have been digging in the architectural history of my home-town Dordrecht, and the more …
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