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PRIVATE HOUSE SOLHEIM
A.H. WEGERIF GZN., -1932, Ruys de Beerebrouckstraat 47, Delft
Woonhuis Solheim / Private House Solheim ( A.H. Wegerif Gzn. )
© 2006 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Henk Wegerif Gzn.

ARTIST:
Jaap Gidding

BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses


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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.