[Interior design] Koelewijn & Van den Ent Collection of ca. 85 original interior designs,

all but a few executed in gouache/ watercolour, various sizes, comprising designs for walls, ceilings, doors, stained glass windows, furniture, a lamp, ornaments, some commercial printed matter and a col.lithogr. design for a bookcover, including 11 designs with stamp (7x), or name (3x) or monogram (1x) in pen of the firm Koelewijn & Van den Ent (Kerkstraat 301, Amsterdam), one of these designs signed "v. Reijn" (1 other design of a cabinet monogrammed "vR"), 1 design with stamp. of Staal & Haalmeyer (15 jul. 93 Amsterdam) and 1 design with stamp "Meubelfabriek Firma D. v.d. Werff Achter-Oosteinde 14 Amsterdam".

Partly more or less foxed/ dustsoiled or sl. dam./ w. sm. tears. A very interesting collection of rare original designs, giving a nice insight in the way interior decorators and contracting companies prepared themselves for the architectural work. The monogrammed design for Koelewijn & Van den Ent is titled "Plan verbouwing perceel Heerengracht 544". The contracting company Staal en Haalmeyer was jointly owned by the father of Jan Frederik Staal (1879-1940), who later became a leading exponent of the movement the Amsterdamse School. He was also an editor of Wendingen magazine from 1920 to 1931.