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The design department is without a doubt the most varied sub-collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. In the museum's public depot, everyone can marvel at the diversity of this collection of 50,000 pieces. The objects range from traditionally turned cooking pots to unique engraved memorial glasses and mass-produced tubular steel chairs. But why were all these objects collected in the first place? And what do they have to tell us? What is the common denominator between a dress from Viktor&Rolf, a glass from Copier, a silver salt cellar from Van Vianen and a typewriter from Sottsass? In this richly illustrated Boijmans Study, Mienke Simon Thomas, curator at the museum from 1993 to 2021, describes who or what determined what the museum acquired over the past 175 years and how progressive insights kept changing that collection policy. Central to the story are the passions of private collectors, the emancipation of the area of study, social changes and, last but not least, the personal preferences of the directors and employees.
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