Introduction to a modern lifestyle
The Sonneveld family comprised Albertus Sonneveld, one of the directors of the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, his wife Gésine Sonneveld-Bos and their daughters Puck and Gé. They lived in Sonneveld House from 1933 to 1955. Before moving here, they lived in a stately nineteenth-century townhouse on the leafy Heemraadssingel in the centre of Rotterdam. It was an atmospheric but dark and traditionally designed house with old-fashioned furnishings. When they moved, they left almost everything behind