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Design aficionados know it wouldn't be a visit to Amsterdam without taking a lap around the multiple rooms in this ingenious, engaging showroom-gallery-shop for the best in Dutch design, always displayed with unexpected flair or plain old cheek. Owners Dick Dankers and Coq de Rooy stock all the same great stuff Murray Moss does at his revered Manhattan gallery, with none of that store's hushed, glass-encased preciousness: of course you can pick up that Jurgen Bey for Royal Tichelaar Makkum teapot! Yes, please feel free to try out the Piet Hein Eek chair! Exceptional everyday objects in their natural habitat, an experience not to be missed.

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From Travel + Leisure , NOV 2008

The Netherlands is a model for green urbanism, and as Dutch artists explore the intersection of high design and sustainability, T+L finds that what's old is new again...MORE>>

– Joe Dolce Modern Netherlands

From Travel + Leisure , OCT 2006

Right before I set off for the Netherlands' fine and aqueous and legendarily tolerant capital, friends who know Amsterdam well informed me that rumors of a city wreathed in a marijuana nimbus were, if not altogether untrue, misleading and unfair...MORE>>

– Guy Trebay Going Dutch

Last updated November 2008