The Dutch studio Wessels Boer turned one of the remaining dime houses into a living storyteller. An imaginative installation of cut-out sculptures summarizes a centuries-old story with a different approach to typography.
"Dime house" is years 1968 like the first social housing project founded by an association in the Netherlands Building Society for Home Ownership (BVEW). According to the idea of the time groups of idealistic workers residents paid 10 cents (1 dime) per week.
Small houses hidden behind a brick wall can be found in the immediate vicinity Amsterdam's Mauritskade. Almost imperceptible before architecture of historical value, she now got a new image. An artist Marjet Wessels Boer from studios Wessels Boer she just turned a simple barrier into a unique work of art.
She used it typography concept, originally referring to the BVEW members' newspaper, and created a collection of aluminum carved silhouettes of various symbols, compartmentalized inside the brick facade and marked with house numbers current residents. With this she created instructive urban intervention, which through typographic art tells personal and historical memories of life in the "Dime house". You can read the stories in more detail here.
