Cornelis van der Sluys

Cornelis van der Sluys (Brouwershaven, 4 June 1883 – Amsterdam, 4 January 1944) was a Dutch furniture and textile designer, interior designer, decorator, glass painter, sculptor, goldsmith, organizer, and publicist.

After training as a decorative painter, he was educated at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1894 to 1899 where he was a pupil of amongst others under Johan Thorn Prikker and Eduard Willem Frederik Kerling.

In 1905 to 1906 he made a tour of Europe, notably in Belgium and England then returned to The Hague, where he kept worked from 1906 to 1944.

Van der Sluys," located in a house with several showrooms on the Avenue of New East Indies.

In 1916–1918 he established the Office of Interior Architecture and Furniture in the Old Molstraat with Van der Sluys as director.