09. Puck's bedroom, and terrace

Puck, the family's elder daughter, was 19 when they moved to this house. She was given the larger of the two girls' bedrooms and had access to a spacious terrace which forms the roof of the kitchen and can only be reached from her room, so it was her exclusive territory. There was a large windbreak facing the road. The thicker section at the end of the wall incorporates the kitchen chimney. Both the girls' bedrooms had the same furniture but in different colours. Puck kept a few personal items on the closet next to the large mirror, including a comb, a brush and her makeup. She'd first encountered cosmetics during a trip to America, and began using them after her return. The large mirror and the Gispen lamps beside it have always been there, and the clock has always worked. Puck's Gispen bed has also survived, and is now back in its original position after decades of having been elsewhere. Puck could control the volume of the sound system from her bed, but she couldn't choose a radio station. If the radio or record player downstairs was switched on, she could listen to the music in her bedroom.

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Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved houses in the Dutch Functionalist style. The villa was designed in 1933 by architecture firm Brinkman and Van der Vlugt for Albertus Sonneveld, a director of the Van Nelle Factory.