21. Service hall

This is the service hall which leads into the laundry. The washing was done outside the door. The staff did small quantities of washing and their own laundry in the troughs, and the family's laundry was taken out of the laundry chute, placed in square wicker baskets and left ready for collection by the laundry company.

From this hall, you can continue your tour via the garage, number 22, or through the passage to the maids’ quarters, number 23. The garage now houses the documentation centre, where you can see a film on the restoration and furnishing of the house.

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Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved houses in the Dutch Functionalist style. The villa was designed in 1933 by architecture firm Brinkman and Van der Vlugt for Albertus Sonneveld, a director of the Van Nelle Factory.