The Dutch households in the Hague would extend their homes into the sidewalks with these modest chairs and benches. My host in Holland told me he often sees people make a dining room out of the street, bringing full table sets out on nice evenings. It helps that, with all row houses similar in height […]
Cool curves. This Thonet chair and the “bentwood” series are ubiquitous and deserve to be so because they were the world’s first mass-produced chairs. Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian master carpenter. In the 1830s, he developed a technique to make special wood veneers he could steam bend. From very little material, he could create rich […]
Every city I visited this trip had its own version of this classic park bench. In Delft, they were well-placed and got plenty of use. I loved seeing them right along the canal water, on the little landings where you could ‘duck’ out of the crowds, as this boy was doing.
Yeah, I don’t think I need to say a lot about this one. Here is the pop art version also used in the Arrested Development TV series, as well as the Pedro Freideberg original from the 1960s that probably inspired both. Delft is famous for it’s ceramic tiles and pottery decorated in this same style.
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