Bloemgracht 10, “The New Kid on the Block”; about the packaging industry, including that of the Ritman family (now the Embassy of the Free Mind); about the Ruys family; Frederik Ruys, “Doctor Death.
Bloemgracht 82, “The Lives of Heroes” - on the three resistance fighters Durk Wolders, Jan Keune and Ko Stevense, murdered shortly before the end of the Second World War by Amsterdam police officer Maarten Kuiper.
Bloemgracht 127, “Pearls of the Imagination” - on Rembrandt’s supposed studio in his final years, its present-day creative inhabitants, and “De Veldhoen”, the acrid vinegar factory.
Bloemgracht 40, “A Heavenly Revision” - on the polymath Jan Frederik Keyser and his shared passion for astronomy with the current residents; on the renowned landscape architect Michael van Gessel; and on the fortunes of the Veldhoen family.
solarium
Article: FORUM magazine - architecture et amicitiae
Title: Solarium
Concept: David Veldhoen
Subject: Seven attics along the Bloemgracht, Amsterdam
Status: Published
Year: 2025
