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Stedelijk Museum CS If you visited Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum sometime between 2004 and 2008, you didn't find it on the Museumplein next to the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum. Instead, you'd have taken an elevator up a stark 1968 office tower right by Centraal Station. That's the story of Stedelijk Museum CS , an unlikely but formative chapter in the museum's history. By the early 1990s, the Stedelijk's original 1895 building on Paulus Potterstraat was showing its age. It lacked the fire safety and climate-control standards a modern museum needs to protect its collection, and after years of discussion about...

Wim Crouwel / The Gridnik   For examples of the many Crouwel designs www.ftn-books.com has in its inventory please click here and search for “crouwel” and find over 600 Wim Crouwel related items. The Gridnik: The Life and Quiet Rebellion of Wim Crouwel Amsterdam, 1967 The room was too quiet. Wim Crouwel stood beside a wall of proofs, watching people who normally had opinions about everything struggle to say anything at all. He had just shown them a new alphabet — one he had built not from centuries of calligraphic tradition, but from a grid. No curves. No diagonals where a diagonal wasn’t strictly...

Willem Sandberg The Man Who Tore Up the Rulebook: Willem Sandberg and the Reinvention of the Museum For the many Sandberg items www.ftn-books.com has available, click here   Walk into Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum today, and you’re standing inside an idea that one man spent thirty years fighting for: that a museum should be alive, welcoming, and unafraid of new art. That man was Willem Sandberg — a self-taught typographer, wartime forger, and the director who turned a sleepy Dutch municipal museum into one of Europe’s most influential homes for modern art. Sandberg’s story is unusual because it refuses to sit in one lane....