Groups of 15 to 45 can crown their garden visit with lunch or tea in the grand but intimate ’ Grote Zaal’. A simpler location for lunch or tea is the adjoining exhibition room in the former coach house-garage.
Victor de Stuers (1843-1916) was an avid collector as well as being responsible for building the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
He assembled 17th century elements to furnish the ‘Grote Zaal’, the principal room in his house in the Hague. The ‘Spanish Leather’ comes from Malines in Belgium; the tapestry from Brussels. The fireplace has sandstone caryatids of Adam and Eve and early Delft polychrome tiles representing Fire and Water. The painting above, of ‘Diana and Endymion’, is by the Neapolitan, Luca Giordano. Light falls through the stained glass of the windows and is reflected from massive brass chandlers.
Alice, Victor de Stuers’ only child and heir, moved the furnishings of the ‘Grote Zaal’ to the ‘Bouwhuis’ (the coach house) of de Wiersse in 1924.
