The works of C.H. Eckhart for the Teylers Museum in Haarlem
This booklet is the second 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 polychrome 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 painter and decorator Jakob Smits and the C.H. Eckhart factory to the extension and redevelopment of the Teylers Museum in the period 1884-1888. Jakob Smits made several sketches and design drawings in 1884 for the decoration of the New Entrance on the Spaarne and in 1885 for the ceiling of the Watercolour Room (today the Print Room). The C.H. Eckhartfactory furnished the Watercolour Room in 1886 and the Numismatic Room in 1887-1888.
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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:
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.