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Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
In 1634, the Dutch established a trading settlement in a natural harbor on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. The town continued to grow over the following centuries. The modern town is made up of several unique historic neighborhoods, and its architecture reflects not only European urban planning concepts, but also the styles of the Dutch as well as the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns that traded with Willemstad.
Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
The Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and designed by architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld and completed in 1924. With its interior decoration, flexible spatial layout and visual and formal qualities, this small family house became a manifesto of the ideals of Dutch De Stijl artists and architects in the 1920s and has since been regarded as one of the icons of the modern architectural movement.