Amsterdam School

Jac. van den Bosch

Jac. van den Bosch was a well-known Dutch furniture and interior designer. He started out drawing at a furniture factory and that is where he met H.P. Berlage. Together with him, they started ''t Binnenhuis' where they designed a lot of Amsterdam School Cabinets and other furniture.

'T Binnenhuis was an interior design business. The idea was to make furniture and "decoration" of the interior available to ordinary people. Ultimately, the furniture remained accessible mainly to wealthy citizens. Originally the idea was that 't Binnenhuis was a cooperation of many artists and designers, including Jan Eisenloeffel.

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Although the interior design business was run by Jac van den Bosch for almost thirty years, who also drew most of the designs, the store remained above all the brainchild of Berlage. He founded the business and also provided financial support. Well-known customers included the Amsterdam family Fentener van Vlissingen, Anton Philips and Helene Kroller-Muller.

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We have a great corner chair available designed by Jac. van den Bosch

Company Drilling

Because of the decorations, it was hard to produce Amsterdam School furniture with machines and in series. Therefore, it largely remained accessible for the more rich people.

A couple of companies try to align more with 'the public' and develop more accessible furniture. The Drilling furniture factory was one of them; started by J.Th. Drilling and was situated on the Rozengracht in Amsterdam from 1917. They 're-opened' in 1924 and designed a specific 'opening interior'. In total this was produced twelve times. The company was partially machine manufacturing some of their furniture like legs of chairs. However, there was still enough hand work for the 45 furniture makers it had employed at that time.

More can be read in this (Dutch) article.

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We have two Amsterdamse School cabinets by J.Th. Drilling and we love the decorative ornaments on them.

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