This is where the house keeps its notes. Not news, and not offers — there are other places for those. What you will find here is slower: the reasoning behind a staircase that stayed, the morning a menu is written, the rituals we would recommend to a friend, and the city as the people who work here know it. Most of it is written by those same people, in the evenings, when the house is quiet. Some of it is useful before you arrive. The rest is simply what a house of seventeen rooms has to say after three hundred years on the water. We add to it only when there is something worth telling.
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The House
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What the restoration left alone
Three years, and most of them spent deciding what not to touch.
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The Table
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A morning at the fish market
Marée’s menu is written at half past five, standing on a wet floor.
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Rituals
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The slow bath
A bath, done properly, takes an hour. This is how we would spend it.
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Amsterdam
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Seven addresses we send guests to
Not a list of sights. The places we would go ourselves, a short walk from the door.
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Amsterdam
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Winter on the Keizersgracht
The canal goes quiet in January, and the house is at its best.
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