After visiting the Rijksmuseum where Gerrit Rietveld’s famous chair (designed in 1917) is exhibited in its original unstained version, I returned to my room in the Museum Suites hotel to sit on the painted Red and Blue reproduction and watched the sun set over Amsterdam steeples.

At the Rijksmuseum, there is a plywood model of a hôtel particulier made by Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) in 1951 according to the designs by Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) and Cornelis van Eesteren (1897-1988) who in 1923 presented the first architectural plans of this house/gallery following the De Stijl principles.

At the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam, there is  a rustic model of a vernacular manor house sitting comfortably on a library bookshelf.

This pair of bridges spanning between the Borneo and the Sporenburg peninsulas in Amsterdam were completed in 2000 by West 8 Architects.