Exhibitions
Sanny loves working on exhibitions with a role for linen and damask. Museums and castles ask her to contribute as a guest curator, and she develops her own concepts.
That’s how it’s done (not!): the baroness’s worn linen
The shabby but authentic linen weaver’s house provided the perfect setting for the baroness’s patched-up linen. In October 1945, the Swiss nurse Odette Graber married…
DINNER IS SERVED, townspeople and country folk, servants and masters!
In 2016, there was more linen damask on display in the beautiful rural museum in Bleskensgraaf than in all the other major Dutch museums put…
Dutch dining: 400 years of dining culture
Ten beautifully decorated tables told the story of Dutch dining culture. This is how prominent families and institutions impressed their guests: with beautiful damask-covered tables,…
Class distinctions. Dutch painting in the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA. Ronni Baer put together a wonderful exhibition with 75 first-class pieces by 17th-century Dutch artists. Vermeer, Rembrandt, Pieter…
A peek in the linen cabinet of times gone by
After its restoration, Groeneveld Castle was also partly refurnished, and this included the linen room. Sanny provided over 700 pieces of linen damask on long-term…
Artistic linen damask from Brabant 1900-1960. Designs by Chris Lebeau, André Vlaanderen, Jaap Gidding and their contemporaries.
Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands. In the past, shiny linen damask used to feature on many dining tables. The table linen and napkins were a…
Beautiful damask, pressed with love
Slot Zuylen, Oud-Zuilen. The dining room table was immaculately covered with 17th century linen damask. Belle van Zuylen’s bed was made with sheets and pillow…
Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe
During the exhibition Thuis in Rotterdam (At home in Rotterdam), the city put its captivating architectural history in the spotlight. The doors of 24 Rotterdam…
Neat piles of linen
Piles and piles, all around the museum lay piles of linen from various linen sets of the 20th century: piles of bedsheets and piles of…
Dining with Wilhelmina. Commemorative Dutch damask, 1898-1998
Textielmuseum Tilburg This exhibition was based on the commemoration of Queen Wilhelmina’s coronation in 1898 and the memorable year 2000. Sanny’s concept focused on the…
The linen press of Rubens’ wife
The Rubens House, Antwerp, permanent damask exhibition Visit the linen room in museum the Rubens House in Antwerp, and it seems as though Rubens’ wife…