Sonneveld's house


  • Photographer
    Aurelien Chauvaud
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    September 2015

Albertus Huis Sonneveld was one of the three directors of the Van Nelle factory, a Rotterdam manufacturer of tobacco, cigarettes, coffee and tea. In 1929 he commissionned the architecture firm Brinkman & Van der Vlugt the construction of a house for him and his family. The family mooved into the house in 1933, leaving all their households behind. Not merely content to adapt to their suroundings, they made a radical conversion to modern lifestyle by choosing to modernize their whole interior according to the tastes of the avant garde. The house was furnished with furniture and materials made by W.H. Gispen, Bart van der Leck and others. The house, left untouched, reveals the lifestyle of a prominent family of Rotterdammers who embraced modernism, showing how they furnished their house and which objects they surrounded themselves with. Shot for "O" , the supplément of "Le Nouvel Observateur" (France). Picture editor: Véronique Rotenberg

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