Living in the Amsterdam School

About us

Our work

About us

Our work

Search for a project...

In progress...Nature A16 Rotterdam: the Making-of The Inheritance Our Land Expedition HVC Het Loo palace Netherlands Pavilion United Arab Emirates Pavilion Harbour Experience Center House of Artisans Groote Museum Coronel pavilion Project What If Fake (f)or Real Museum of the Mind Torn Island Remaking.nl Van Doesburg Interbellum Rotterdam Wonderland Him too...??Kramer vs Rietveld Legacy of The Netherlands Miraculous Alphabet The Rebuilding of Rotterdam Hotel Bazar From Cuypers to Coenen Bestemming AMS The Departure Hall Mainport Live Jewish History in the 20th century Visitors Center Veluwezoom Qasr Al Hosn Exhibition Pop-stage WATT Kampen Municipal Museum Florence Nightingale Museum Judaism The Portuguese Synagogue Death Matters Amsterdam DNA Out of the Shadows Dead Sea Scrolls Story of the Totem pole Kaap Skil The Time Stairs Geisha Hail the People!(Inter)actions Looking In — with Thijs Wolzak Making City The Museum of the Canals National Military Museum BK City Longing for Mecca Maritime Museum of Denmark Loaded Trains World of Feathers The Story of ECCO Bisj Poles LEF Future Center Fish and Folk Chambers of Wonder Vedute Typical Frankfurt Air / Hoeksche Waard Digital Depot Urbanian Pavilion Istanbul Plan the Impossible The Bhuddha Parade Museum A Monument Filled with Stories The Darkroom Qasr Al Hosn Festival The Madhouse Down to the Bone The Play’s the Thing Humania Ziezo Marokko Canon of Dutch History Things that Matter Lounge 2 Schiphol FAKE. The Whole Truth Welcome to Jerusalem RAF – First to the Future Living in the Amsterdam School Mary The Most Beautiful City Dealing with Drugs Work in Progress Death Museum für Kommunikation Micropia Bolidt Innovation Center Offshore Experience Life The Story of Gardening

After all those days at home behind a screen, it is very nice to finally do some hands-on experimenting with projections and different layers of transparent fabrics... Nature

07.12.2021 at 17:33 by Pauline Fer

Play

Work in progress for a children's tour Work in Progress

25.11.2021 at 09:35 by Annika Jacobs

Play

Barefoot in an exhibition? Together with the Stapferhaus, we are looking at what this means for the perception of the visitors... Nature

24.11.2021 at 18:23 by Robin Schijfs

With a few kickoff days (and nights) in the mountains of Switzerland, we have firmly started the draft design for the new Nature exhibition at the Stapferhaus! Nature

30.09.2021 at 11:09 by Robin Schijfs

Play

Super exiting moment discovering the panels of the « 4 visions on the Anthropocene » box we made for the Vienna Biennal 2021! Work in Progress

12.05.2021 at 12:00 by Lea Chenot

Play

A big empty space, right before installing all exhibits at WeTheCurious! Project What If

01.02.2021 at 12:19 by Ina Meininghaus

Play

Safety vs. functionality: looking for the best headphones to use in a factory Expedition HVC

07.01.2021 at 17:39 by Roel Bolhuis

Play

The new temporary exhibition in House of European History is 'under construction' Fake (f)or Real

07.01.2021 at 17:32 by Tsur Reshef

Play

The last steps before the Coronel Pavilion at the Portuguese-Israeli Cemetery Beth Haim is opened! Coronel pavilion

29.11.2020 at 14:30 by Remco Swart

Play

All in good hands with Fiction Factory Museum of the Mind

07.11.2020 at 17:32 by Femke Bijlsma

Play

"Who Cares?" The first model for a personal story in the upcoming exhibition on the Mind Museum of the Mind

20.08.2020 at 11:45 by Robert van der Linde

Visiting Paleis Het Loo together with Ina, to get an impression of the new exhibition spaces that are currently under construction. Het Loo palace

22.06.2020 at 14:08 by Robin Schijfs

Play

Very slowly, the new 'inside' of the east wing of Het Loo Palace is becoming visible. Het Loo palace

22.06.2020 at 14:06 by Robin Schijfs

Play

Last trip before Corona Lockdown: Usomo from Berlin calibrating their audio tracking system in the Polder of Texel next to the bunker. Torn Island

22.06.2020 at 10:32 by Michel de Vaan

How to become invisible? Prototyping together with WeTheCurious at Bruns Project What If

17.03.2020 at 15:33 by Ina Meininghaus

Play

Prototyping a rainbow crystal sphere for one of the new exhibit constellations at WeTheCurious. Project What If

12.03.2020 at 09:51 by Ina Meininghaus

Play

Brainstorm sessions United Arab Emirates Pavilion

10.02.2020 at 14:58 by Alejandra Calderon

Play

Imagining a new interactive in Al Ain Oasis! House of Artisans

10.02.2020 at 14:46 by Alejandra Calderon

Challenging
the White Box

Living in the Amsterdam School

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

The Amsterdam School is famous for its architecture, both in the Netherlands and internationally. However, the school’s spectacular design for interiors is less well known. The exhibition ‘Living in the Amsterdam School’ focuses on the interior design of this expressive, influential movement at the start of the twentieth century. Visitors can get filled with wonder through the sculptural lines, the colourful palette and intricate patterns, shown in the over 500 objects on display, like furniture, lamps, ceramics, textiles and stained glass. Kossmann.dejong created an engaging environment for this collection through a graphical setting of extremely enlarged details on the walls; blow-ups, which surround the visitor and emphasize the exceptional form language of the Amsterdam School.

Project photography: Thijs Wolzak

Location

Amsterdam (NL)

Client

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Year

2016

Surface

1200 m2

Status

Temporary

Role

Concept, Spatial design, Graphic design, Art-direction, Catalogue and poster

Team

Herman Kossman (lead), Remco Swart, Sietske Sips, Robin Schijfs, Serena Bigatti, Pauline Fer, Martijn Sas

Realisation

Landstra & De Vries

Book publisher

Thoth Publishers

Interior Design 1910-1930

Following previous successful collaborations on the exhibitions Designs for children (2002) and Kramer vs Rietveld (2004) Kossmanndejong has been invited by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to design the new temporary exhibition Living in the Amsterdam School. Designing for the interior 1910-1930. An immersion in details, shapes and craft, particular for this movement in the Netherlands.
The Amsterdam School is famous for its architecture, both in the Netherlands and internationally. However, the school’s spectacular design for interiors is less well known.

The early years of 20th century

The exhibition ‘Living in the Amsterdam School’ focuses on the interior design of this expressive, influential movement at the start of the twentieth century. Visitors can get filled with wonder through the sculptural lines, the colourful palette and intricate patterns, shown in the over 500 objects on display, like furniture, lamps, ceramics, textiles and stained glass. Kossmann.dejong created an engaging environment for this collection through a graphical setting of extremely enlarged details on the walls; blow-ups, which surround the visitor and emphasize the exceptional form language of the Amsterdam School.