House of Canvas, Amsterdam


The Karel Appel House is based in the East of Amsterdam, Netherlands;

It combines short stay apartment housing with a boutique museum which operates in collaboration with The CoBrA Museum and Royal Academy of Visual Arts.

The project is a tribute to the famous avant-garde CoBra painter Karel Appel who was born in the Dapperbuurt and started his international painting career there. Appel’s paintings and sculptures were distinguished by the vibrant and bold colors used. The interiors of the residence (walls, floors, ceilings and steel walls), follow the same color palette as his paintings; they have been treated as if they were a blank canvas waiting for intense colors to be placed on them.

Read the original blog post here on Yatzer.

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