Sonneveld House in the South Holland city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands was built in 1932 and 1933 by architect Leendert van der Vlugt of Bureau Brinkman & van der Vlugt, commissioned by A.H. Sonneveld, then member of the board of the Rotterdam company Erven De Weduwe J. van Nelle. Huis Sonneveld, together with the nearby Huis Boevé, designed by the same architect in the same style, is a national monument.
The design of the interior, the execution of the carpentry, the choice of upholstery and furniture, as well as the design of the outdoor space are tuned in detail to the functional layout of the building. Thus, there is a Gesamtkunstwerk in the sense of the Dessauer Bauhaus of Walter Gropius.
Garden Sonneveld also has cultural-historical value, as an early example of functionalist ideas about the layout of outdoor spaces and the desired duality between a garden and a building.
Since 2001 it has been a museum visited by visitors from all over the world, the management of which has been mandated by the new owners, Stichting Volkskracht Historische Monumenten, to Het Nieuwe Instituut, located opposite Huis Sonneveld.
