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Informationen zum Autor Lars Sjoberg had a 36-year career at the National Museum in Sweden! and for many of those years he was Senior Curator in the Department of the Royal Castles Collections. During that time he worked on the exhibitions Empire Style! Thought and Form in Rococo and The Sun and the Polar Star (Stockholm and Paris). Since 1990 he has been a consultant on reproduction 18th-century furniture for the National Board of Antiquities and IKEA. He is the author of over fifteen books! including The Swedish Room. Ingalill Snitt specializes in architecture and interior design photography! and also directs television commercials. Her books of photography include Splendore di Sicilia! Swedish - Light! Shape! Architecture! Living in Norway and two with Lars Sjoberg: The Swedish Room and The Swedish House. Her work is regularly featured in magazines including Elle! Marie Claire! Architectural Digest and The World of Interiors. Klappentext Lars Sjoberg is as widely known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of Sweden's historic houses as he is for his passionate concern to preserve them. Presented here are the eight houses (and one church) that he has acquired over forty years. They range from a miniature Baroque manor house to an imposing Italianate Neoclassical villa! from a late 17th-century aristocratic mansion to the two-room dwellings of early 19th-century smelting workers. This book is a ravishingly beautiful! deeply personal summary of everything Lars Sjoberg has learnt in his years of working and living with classic Swedish interiors. Zusammenfassung Full of insight and inspiration! this is a deeply personal summary of everything Lars Sjoberg has learnt in his years of working and living with classic Swedish interiors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Ingalill Snitt A Plea for the Past Salaholm Sorby Odenslunda Regnaholm The Brukskontoret at Leufsta Bruk Ekensberg The Hyttan at Dylta Bruk Bratteberg The EFS Church at Bollsta Bruk Index Acknowledgements ...
