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Ten shower heads

Mr and Mrs Sonneveld’s bathroom was the height of modernist luxury in the 1930s. In a period when many houses still had no shower, this bathroom with two washbasins, a shower cabin and a bath (and a heated towel rack) was exceptional.

Master bathroom. Photo Johannes Schwartz.

Mr Sonneveld discovered the hydro-massage shower in luxury hotels in America, which he first visited at the age of twenty-four. He had the large shower head and the nine smaller nozzles sent over specially from America. 

Brinkman en Van der Vlugt. Interior design of the master bathroom. Collection Nieuwe Instituut. BROX 93t21

Master bathroom. Photo Johannes Schwartz.

Shower heads in the bathroom. Photo Petra van der Ree

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