Ready for Christmas in Stockholm

How nice it is to be home to spend my holiday with my family. I still have lots of things to do before Christmas but I'd like to show you this apartment in Stockholm before I start my busy day.

Located in Östermalm, a large district in central Stockholm, Sweden, it is all ready for Christmas. Gustavian furniture, gilded mirrors and a soft palette of greys and whites define this lovely home.




















I'm sure I'll be able to make another post before Christmas. See you then!
Photographs: Joakim Bergström
All images from Skona hem.

Swedish Style Home

A soft palette of creams and whites dominates this Swedish home. The rooms seem to blend into each other with raw floor boards, a mix of Gustavian style and modern furniture, flea market finds and antiques.




The only room without wooden flooring. Checkered white and grey tiles for the entrance hall floor.




A typical white Swedish stove - called kakelugn, stands in the corner of the living room. Gustavian chair.


Upholstered with different fabrics, two Gustavian chairs by a distressed painted desk.


















Farmhouse sink.




Unusually high fireplace.




Vintage Marais style metal chairs in the dining room.


Small trumeau by the windows in the master bedroom. The bed seems to be sagging in the middle.

Love this wallpaper which you can see better in the next photograph.







Photograph: Mikkel Adsbøl

All images from here.

Swedish Style in New York

It is not hard to tell that the owner of this house in Sag Harbor is a connoisseur of Swedish antiques. Just looking at the rooms makes you feel you are in Sweden rather than in New York. Let us step into the Dienst's home.

The Dienst family on the back porch of their Sag Harbor home.

The facade of the house, which was transported to the site by ferry in 1810 to serve as a meetinghouse in the town.


Magic seated on a Gustavian chair and Country, the family's poodles pose in the entryway.The Gustavian console is carved giltwood with a faux-marble top.

The centerpiece of the living room is a Gustavian sofa, which has been upholstered in plain linen. The cocktail table, the leather rocking chair, and the lamp on the small Swedish side table are all mid-twentieth-century pieces by Danish designer Poul Henningsen. The simple, roll-up window shades are the same kind used in Swedish manor houses, but these are made from a sheer fabric.

The living room walls and mantel were painted slightly different variations of the same color -- white with a touch of gray. The painting is a 1911 portrait of Swedish boys in school uniforms, and the statues came from a rustic church in southern Sweden. The candlesticks are an ingenious nineteenth-century English design with weighted bases that let the candles project in front of the mantel.

In the dining room early-eighteenth-century Swedish chairs surround a contemporary table. Linen drapes and stripped floors contribute to the spare look.

A rare, mid-eighteenth-century giltwood clock, made in Stockholm, is set against faux paneling created with shades of paint. The glassware is eighteenth-century American and Swedish; the nineteenth-century landscape is Swedish.

The second-floor landing features a large baroque cabinet from Sweden, which retains its original paint. Its heavy glass cupboard top was lost in U.S. Customs.

A baroque Swedish desk in a guest bedroom. The small side cabinet is rococo, and the lamp is Danish.

Eighteenth- and twentieth-century glass and ceramics brighten a guest bedroom.

The pink room, a small parlor off the entry, features an early-baroque spark screen. The mirror is Danish rococo, and the crystal chandelier it reflects is Gustavian. Brass propellers complete the look.

The kitchen, renovated by the previous owner, was the one room left almost untouched. The counters are mahogany.

In the pink room, gray wainscoting and bare floors soften the vivid color of the walls, which are adorned with an asymmetrical array of small paintings, sea fans, and a framed collection of starfish. The Gustavian settee is upholstered in linen, the stool is from the mid-nineteenth century, and the side chair is baroque. A mid-twentieth-century Danish lamp stands on the floor by the settee.

A baroque wing chair is upholstered in gray linen; the chest is baroque, and the lamp is by Poul Henningsen.

The eighteenth-century gilded crown in the master bedroom emulates the bed of Queen Hedvig Eleonora at Drottningholm Palace, in Sweden.

Mouse-grey velvet for the headboard and skirt and a double-faced linen for the drapes.

In their daughter's room, a nineteenth-century bed has been reupholstered in a heavy velvet. French nineteenth-century chair by the bed. Even the toy horses have provenance: They are Dala horses, a traditional motif of Dalarna, Sweden. The carved chest is German.

All images and information from Martha Stewart.

Swedish and French Furniture

An English Tudor house with a country feel was transformed into a Swedish style home by interior designers Carol Glasser and Katrin Cargill. Enfilades [room-to-room views] are a hallmark of Swedish style, and a number of doors on the ground floor were taken out to create one. Interior shutters that tuck in to the window reveals were added, and wide Canadian pine-plank flooring with a chalky limed finish.
Let's step in.



The designers had an artist hand-color and glaze 18th-century black-and-white Dutch engravings for the sunroom; eleven are originals, the balance photocopies that are all but indistinguishable from the real thing. Both chairs and table are Swedish antiques.


Various vantage points in the family room, where an alderwood pedestal table separates dressed-up and dressed-down seating areas, one with a delicate Swedish painted sofa, the other (where the children watch TV) with a sprawling Charles sectional. Painted rustic planks on the walls.


Antiques with their original paint — a French Directoire mantel and overmantel and Swedish tea table and armchair.


No Swedish house is complete without a longcase clock.


These dining chairs are a reproduction of Swedish furniture.


Gustavian armchair and Swedish dropleaf table in the breakfast room.


Rather than hanging heavy cabinets on the kitchen's window wall, Cargill and Glasser designed plate racks to display part of a collection of French faience. Deployed throughout the house, the roller shade is a traditional Swedish design. Charles Edwards tole pendant lamp with a nickel lining.


The Viking range has a graphite finish.


Nordic Style is one of Cargill and Glasser's favorite resources for Swedish lighting (the glass urn lamps), furniture (the painted chests, pressed into service as night tables), and fabrics (the Raspberry Small Check on the bench, and 19th-century bed in the Louis XVI taste). Scrubbed with liming paste, extra-wide Canadian pine floor planks are partially covered with flat-weave wool rugs.


All images and information from House Beautiful.