KLM Celebrates 106th Anniversary with New Delft Blue House Honoring Villa Rameau in Leiden - The Bulkhead Seat

Wee Delft Blue house marks KLM’s 106 birthday - Stuck at the Airport

If you fly on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as a Business Class passenger on an intercontinental flight, you’ll get to choose a tiny Delft Blue house from a cart rolled down the aisle towards the end of the flight. Don’t pass up the offer. KLM has been gifting these miniature gin-filled houses representing special buildings in the Netherlands and beyond to business class passengers since the 1950s. And the small buildings have become treasured and co…

KLM Celebrates 106th Anniversary with New Delft Blue House Honoring Villa Rameau in Leiden - The Bulkhead Seat

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is celebrating its 106th anniversary by unveiling the newest addition to its iconic Delft Blue miniature collection: Villa Rameau. This is the historic former sexton’s residence located beside the Pieterskerk in Leiden. This symbolic choice honors a site deeply tied to transatlantic history and represents the enduring connections between the Netherlands and the United States. Villa Rameau, which is now home to the Leiden…