The design department of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen undoubtedly manages the most diverse subcollection of the museum. The objects range from hand-thrown cooking pots to uniquely engraved memorial glasses and mass- produced tubular steel chairs. What do all these objects have in common? Why were they collected, and what do they tell us? This comprehensive Boijmans Studie on the museum’s 175-year collection of design commemorates Mienke Simon Thomas’s retirement as curator of the museum.