Cuypers, Eduard

Eduard Cuypers (1859 - 1927) was a Dutch architect and designer. He was educated at the office of his uncle Pierre Cuypers and in 1881 he started his own office in Amsterdam. Apart from offices and houses, he mostly designed train stations. Around 1900 he started an atelier for interior design, Het Huis (The house), which he ran for a decade. As a proponent of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), he believed that the architect was responsible for the exterior as well as the harmonized interior of a building. For a couple of years, he also led a magazine with the same name, focused on interior design.