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BOOKSTORE SCHRÖDER EN DUPONT

A. BODON, 1931-1932, Keizersgracht 516, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Sandor Bodon

BUILDING TYPE:
Shops
Reuse
Museums and exhibition buildings

STATE:
Interior has been changed several times

In a narrow canal house (4.60 x 11.50 x 6 metre), Bodon created with 'efficiency and good taste' a bookstore, remarkable in its differences in level, its galleries, and the steel furniture and racks. The virtually unaltered interior survives today as an art gallery. A variation on the design in modified colours and materials is to be found nearby at the Pegasus bookstore, Leidsestraat 25 (architect Coen de Vries, 1983), now a Dr. Adams shop.