Sonneveld House

Time travel back to the 1930’s. This beautiful ‘modern’ villa from 1930 is completely in its old style, also the interior decoration. Since restored in 2001 many times I passed this villa, every time thinking I should visit soon. Finally I did. It was much better than expected. Great to spend an hour here.

Perfectly restored and great audio guide for each room. An amazing example of the architectural style and interios

Beautiful museum of villa build around 1930. The audio guide is really good and explains each room very well, they accept museumcard. The different rooms have for the 1930s a modern interieur but most importantly it is also functional. Also interesting is the fact that one of the rooms has a modern shower with many exits for the water which was extremely new for that time.

A house inspired by Albertus Sonneveld's visits to America almost 100 years ago. The architects were inspired: large bay windows, a dozen rooms, color combinations, superb bathrooms, new gadgets, ... A little more, and we would think we were in the French film "Mon oncle" by Jacques Tati.

This place was a great visit. The house consists of a tour through a 1933 home noted for its modernist architecture, with free audio tours of its period interiors. You get the idea of how the family lived here back then, and what’s the most incredible thing they moved here leaving all their possessions behind to start fresh with a fully modern furnished house for that time. Many gadgets and interesting things are still used nowadays, some stuff is so high end that we hardly ever see it today in everybody’s home. I truly believe that this will be a great visit for everyone. The house is bigger than it seems and it is really interesting.

Took my grandparents to visit this exemplary edifice of interwar modernist architecture. What a beautiful illustration of Dutch Bauhaus-functionalism. Great audio tour and friendly staff. Shouldn’t take more than an hour — very worthwhile!

Interesting place to look into a wealthy Rotterdam family in the 1930s.

Great visit admiring totally unexpected advanced architecture for the 1930’s. The free audio tour explains almost every individual room and also includes all kinds of sidebars about the original occupants, architects, and the various interior design components. In the garage a movie is on constant repeat chronicling the restoration of the house in early 2000. Don’t miss one of the maids tell about how strict the mrs of the house was.