Process - Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum shows over 200 drawings made between 1500–1900 recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The drawings have been brought together for the first time and are arranged according to the successive stages of the design process. The focus here is not on big artistic names, but on the crucial role that drawings have played in design. We watch from close-by as the ideas for all sorts of items are formed and we also get to meet their inventors, makers and patrons. Drawings of vases, chairs and clocks, stoves, sledges and carriages are shown, from the first rough pencil sketches to beautifully worked-up and colourful presentations. The drawings in this exhibition were recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where they belong to a special collection established by Senior Curator Reinier Baarsen. He offers us a unique insight here into the role that drawing has played in the design process, as well as the superb drawings it has produced.