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PRIVATE HOUSE SMEDES (DEN DOLDER)
G.TH. RIETVELD, 1935-1936, Van Weerden Poelmanlaan 1 (parallelweg Nieuwe Dolderseweg ZO), Den Dolder
Woonhuis Smedes (Den Dolder) / Private House Smedes (Den Dolder) ( G.Th. Rietveld )
© 2014 Ossip van Duivenbode

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Gerrit Rietveld

BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Private House Smedes (Bennekom)

One of Rietveld's Functionalist houses of the 1930s, the Smedes house consists of a cube capped by a cantilevered flat roof, with a garage block and conservatory placed against it. Worthy of note are its steel spiral stair and the sliding partition between living room and dining room. Rietveld also designed its furniture painted in vivid colours (yellow, red, black and grey). The Smedes family lived here until 1956, when the expansion of Soesterberg Air Base prompted them to move to Bennekom, to another Rietveld house at Hullenbergweg 10. The new residents asked Rietveld to design the extension.