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christmas is nearly here and i thought i would share a few photos i took last year at the beautiful home of one of my dear clients. she loves the welcoming  and unpretentious scandinavian style and has  beautiful pieces she has collected over time. i have worked with her on and off over the years,…

It was just a week ago today I enjoyed the festivities of midsummer day at the lovely open air museum Gammelgarden in Scandia. The weather called for rain, but it was a perfect day. In this everso tranquil setting sits the only museum of its type in the United States. Gammelgarden means ‘old farm’ in Swedish…

Carl Larsson is Sweden’s most recognized artist who depicted his idyllic life, with wife Karin and their children, in exquisite delicate watercolor paintings. Born in Stockholm in 1853, he grew up in less than idyllic surroundings, being left by his father for his mother to rear. She worked diligently as a laundress, but earned very…

The Swedish Gustavian Style is named for the young king, Gustav III who reigned over Sweden for 21 years from 1771 to 1792. The Gustavian Style had actually begun to take shape nearly a decade before this when his father was still in power, as a movement against the more ostentatious style of the baroque period.…

Yesterday our local design center, International Market Square, hosted a MinneMarket on the heels of the design industries market at Highpoint in North Carolina. Forty showrooms displayed their various lines in the light-filled atrium where eight showrooms also gave presentations of their latest fabric lines. The day began with an engaging seminar given by Annette…