(Garden City) VREEWIJK. Coloured photograph, laid on card, dated July 1924. 80 x 87mm.

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The garden village was built for workers in Rotterdam's dry docks. Work began in 1916 sponsored by the banker K.P.van der Mandele. H.P. Berlage (1856-1934) was commissioned to draw up the plan. The original waterways were to be preserved, & some of the street angles. Largely executed by M.J. Granpré Molière (1883-1972) and his pupils, the town was the Netherlands' first garden city or 'garden estate'. Vreewijk was on the edge of Rotterdam, and when Granpré Molière drew up his expansion plan for the city, Vreewijk was effortlessly integrated … into its pattern of radial streets and concentric zones (Hans van Dijk, 'Twentieth-century architecture in the Netherlands', Rotterdam: 1998). With neat pen inscription in lower right corner by the Argentine town planner, Carlos della Paolera (1890-1960) 'Ciudad-Jardin Tuindorf Vreewijk Dreef en Leede - Rotterdam Julio de 1924'. A little worn, small surface tear at right edge. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1614077063720

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