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PRIVATE HOUSE SOLHEIM
A.H. WEGERIF GZN., -1932
Ruys de Beerebrouckstraat 47, Delft
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Henk Wegerif Gzn.
ARTIST:
Jaap Gidding
BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Henk Wegerif Gzn.
ARTIST:
Jaap Gidding
BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses
PUBLICATIONS:
Delft wordt modern -architectuur en stedebouw 1850-1940, 1990; K. Mans, W. van Winden - Architectuurgids van Delft, 1992; P. Klein, W. Kliphuis - Henk Wegerif architect van de praktijk, Apeldoorn 1997
This private house was built for W.H. van Leeuwen, a director of a factory producing yeast and spirits. Its architect A.H. Wegerif hails from the so-called Hague School. Though designed in a cubist style recalling the Nieuwe Bouwen, the house also exhibits many decorative aspects such as the coloured eaves, the subdivision of the window frames and the leaded glass in the stairwell. Solheim is Norwegian for sun-house, which explains the sun gracing the stair of the hall. Other symbols worked into the house derive from Freemasonry.