Brückel Advertising can send you a message

Advertising in the Yellow Pages has given way to ads on Google and the drawing board to Photoshop, but the no-nonsense Hague-based agency Brückel Reclame has stood the test of time since 1969. Six years ago, striking founder Peter Brückel handed over the keys to the thriving...

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'At ordinary banks, personal attention is increasingly disappearing'

Building a personal relationship with clients. That is the beauty of the wealth management profession, thinks Marian Dessing, the managing director of InsingerGilissen on Alexanderstraat. "We listen, think along and help make financial goals come true. On a driveway lined with lush green...

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Hague broker Avenir Roos Ouderdorp

Avenir offers tenants new future in DekkersDuin

Bohemen en Meer & Bos is a green neighbourhood where time seems to have stood still. But even in this enclave between Kijkduin and Shopping Centre De Savornin Lohmanplein, the 21st century is ticking by. Behind the few neighbourhood shops of its own, there is now, in Campanula Street, a modern...

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Drost Juten The Hague

Goodbye jacket-tie and ivory tower: these notaries reinvented the profession

Mourning and wedding, buying a house, starting a business: big moments in a person's life involve the notary. "Often people find it quite exciting, even when there is something to celebrate," says Germaine Olde Heuvelt-von Bannisseht, with Remko Oude Hengel

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Studio van t Wout

Studio van 't Wout's Italian design adventure: the Padova

Interior designers Saskia and Arie Alderliesten breathe design. The couple live and work in their Studio van 't Wout showroom on Zeestraat, where you can just walk in to see all the beauty. "That's unique in the Netherlands," says Saskia. "Nowadays everything is called...

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Why November is the month of premiere wines.

In almost every wine region, it is normal for that year's wine to go on sale right after the harvest. It is a pleasure wine as a harbinger of things to come. In Europe, it goes without saying that November is the 'premier month' for...

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Six delicious wines for autumn & winter

Château Rochecolombe We descend the Rhône, passing Lyon, to stop just south of Montélimar, the nougat capital of the world. Here the water continues on the left as canal Donzère-Montdragon and on the right as a real river, albeit tamed. On the riverside lies the wine town of...

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What are the summer wines of 2021?

To 'set the watches straight' for a moment, it is important that we agree together on what exactly are summer wines. Personally, I don't believe in sitting in the shade in the middle of summer at 35 degrees waiting for blockbuster summer wines with a...

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Emile Gassler Van Noort Gassler

How Emile Gassler makes entrepreneurs rich

"Always my guiding principle has been to make my clients rich," states Emile Gassler, the man who joined his father's accounting firm in 1974 with a focus on tax advice for small and medium-sized enterprises. "The limit, of course, is that I ...

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Carlton Beach Hotel

Sun, sea, pool, in short, everything a person needs

What a lovely view. The Carlton Beach Hotel is less than twenty paces from the beach. Sun, beach, Scheveningen. Anyone opening the balcony doors of this four-star hotel will see what the seaside resort has to offer: a lively boulevard on the one hand, the laidback pavilions of the Black...

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