What makes this house special: It was built in 1924, when it must have shocked its neighbors. It was designed by a furniture maker, Gerrit Thomas Reitveld, with no formal education (which shows in the house's increasing deterioration). Its upper floor transforms like a magic puzzle box, with all sorts of ingenious sliding doors and latching wall panels, from five rooms into one giant loft-like space. Still, I'm not sure why this house is on the World Heritage List when the Sonneveld house in Rotterdam is not.
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