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Bed and Breakfast Tilburg "Gust van Dijk" is a hospitable Bed
and Breakfast where you can have a relaxed overnight stay. Bed and Breakfast Tilburg is also a
place where you can fully enjoy contemporary art.
Gust van Dijk
On
this spot, Gust van
Dijk (1884–1977) had a flourishing shop with a
wide assortment of wine and tobacco since the 1930s. His son Kees (1913–1996) continued the business until the
1990s. In 2010 the building has been thoroughly renovated, whereby the characteristic and authentic
elements of the house its architecture were maintained.
Frans Ruts
The well-known Tilburg architect Frans Ruts
(1897-1978), who
designed houses for many well-off Brabanders, was famous for the striking combination of
light and space he made in his designs. This impressed Gust van Dijk and in
1936 he asked Ruts to design a new shop and home as well as to take building management upon
him. The building that Ruts designed has many traditional style elements from the
“New Objectivity”. It has a surprising incidence of light and a practical
layout. Redecorated in 2010, the building is ready for its new purposes: A Home to Contemporary Art and an
artistically oriented Bed and
Breakfast, right in the centre of the Veemarkt Kwartier (VMK)in
Tilburg.
On the ground floor there is a public display, where
alternating projects are being shown that are related to Contemporary art and Design.
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