ABSTRACT
In this chapter I compare two modern movement houses in the Netherlands on
display to the public as ‘modern period rooms’ or ‘exhibited interiors’: the Rietveld
Schröder house in Utrecht, and the Sonneveld house in Rotterdam designed by
Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. I also discuss another house designed by Gerrit Rietveld
with Truus Schröder which is now on show in Utrecht, No. 9 Erasmuslaan. Unlike
some of the interiors discussed in this book, such as Lucie Rie’s apartment, described
in Chapter 9, which travelled from Vienna to London and back, these interiors are
still inside their exteriors, which are also on display. Not, of course, ‘their original
exteriors’, for such houses have been so extensively restored that it is debatable
whether either the interiors or the exteriors are in any sense the originals, but rather
faithful replicas.
