Luzac The Hague

Playing top-class sport and studying? You can do it here.

It is mouse-still in the reading room. Rector Joyce Doeze Jager-van Ham gazes through a glass window at a class of studying final exam students. "What concentration," she whispers to her colleague Wendy Braakman. The two then walk to her adjacent room on Oranjestraat. "That's so...

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Marjon Lok

'More business partner than classic law firm'

In 2019, DVDW Advocaten moved from a villa in the centre of The Hague to a cosmopolitan tower in the Beatrixkwartier. "This building better suits who we are," says equity partner Marjon Lok in the boardroom with panoramic views of the surrounding skyscrapers. Experts in corporate law

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Panorama Mesdag

'I have sometimes been called a museum DJ'

Asked about her choice of Museum Panorama Mesdag, director Minke Schat dissects the versatility of the museum's namesake and creator of its main 'attraction', Hendrik Willem Mesdag. "He was an artist, collector and entrepreneur. The panorama is Mesdag's artistic highlight and the museum...

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Tour of Beauty

Perhaps The Hague's most beautiful beauty boutique

After pressing the golden bell of Hay Street 7, the heavy door swings open inside. Huh, is this a boutique hotel? What an atmosphere, what a place. Right in the middle of Neighbourhood 2005. Tour of Beauty's owner Léonie Vermeulen smiles: "That's exactly the experience....

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Rent in the most beautiful places in The Hague

A few footsteps away from Hotel Des Indes, Robert Nederlof (34) steps into the building at 44 Lange Voorhout, followed in his wake by his brother Tim (31). "Watch where you're walking, though," Robert warns the photographer, who is less than ten centimetres from...

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Project 2.0, Coen van de Oever

'Art is allowed to wriggle a bit'

Coen van den Oever has occasional discussions about it. When is an artist ripe for Project 2.0? The owner of the modern art gallery on Noordeinde, having just spent an hour walking with dog Pier and now sitting behind a cup of tea,...

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