The works of C.H. Eckhart for the Archives of the Royal House in The Hague

This booklet is the first in a series devoted to the work carried out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Rotterdam steam factory of gilded and polychromed mirror frames, furniture and decorations for the interior and exterior of buildings, with the application of painting and sculpture, trade in mirrors, laminated glass and French mirrors, upholstery fabrics, etc. etc. C.H. Eckhart.
Each booklet is dedicated to a specific location to which the C.H. Eckhart furniture factory has contributed in one or more of its specialties: design and/or production and/or installation of mirrors, furniture, wall, fireplace and ceiling woodwork, curtains, carpets, tablecloths, hanging and closing fittings, chandeliers, that is to say everything which, together or separately, contributes to the decoration of an interior.
This booklet deals with the contribution of the C.H. Eckhart factory to the furnishing of the building of the Archives of the Royal House, built in The Hague, near the Noordeinde Palace, in 1896-1899, under the direction of J.P.E. Hoeufft van Velsen, on behalf of Regent Emma and Queen Wilhelmina. C.H. Eckhart delivered the furniture for the director's office and the visitors' study room in 1899, the furniture for the library's reading room in 1900 and an additional writing table for the visitors' study room in 1904.
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The work of the CH Eckhart factory is an opportunity for the French-speaking reader to discover a series of remarkable places.
The first two booklets are available:

• The Archives of the Royal House in The Hague,
• The Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

Other booklets are in preparation on:

• Soestdijk Palace in Baarn,
• Noordeinde Palace in The Hague,
• Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn,
• The Rotterdam City Archives.

Each book is available in two versions, a Dutch version and a French one.
Curious to know more? You may order your copy here or by email.