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Summary: Scandinavian Interior Design
Review: As a folk artist, I am interested in European interior design. My interest in Swedish design lies in the magnificient use of color. This book provided what I needed.
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Summary: Fantastic read
Review: As a lover of the traditional Scandinavian home style, and the owner of four such homes, I found this book truly helpful in decorating all of them. The authors, including Ms. Sears have such an passionate eye for this unique and gorgeous style.
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Summary: Scandinavian Delights
Review: I give Mr. Nordgren the owner high credit for the obvious mega $$$ he spent to have his Carl Larsson dream home come to life. However I concur with a prior reviewer that the interior decorating is sub-par with oversized furniture & decorator pieces that evoke a Non-Scandinavian feel that appears to conflict with its authetic Scandinavian backdrop of the houses interior details. If it was my money $$$ I would have sought out correct period Scandinavian antiques or had authentic pieces recreated from scratch with a 100% effort to create the Nordic "look". Would recommend the book as a strong buy with great design ideas throughout.
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Summary: Dream home down to every detail
Review: I'm fascinated with Carl Larsson's home, and have long wished to recreate that same feel in a modern home. Not being an architect or interior designer, I find it hard though to translate the essence of Carl Larsson and charming old-world Scandinavian design into modern details. This book shows it all. The magnificent home featured is packed with charm without being gaudy. It's also packed with ingeniously creative solutions to practical needs. Full of color photos, it's eye-candy worthy of coffee-table display, and yet is practical enough to be a workbook during the planning stage of a building/remodeling project. It's now my "Dream Home Bible".
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book can only capture half of the beauty in this magnificent house. Lou Heiser work in the architectual design is awesome!P.S. the fishing is great
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book can only capture half of the beauty in this magnificent house. Lou Heiser work in the architectual design is awesome! P.S. the fishing is great
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Summary: An American Take on the Swedish Style Home
Review: This is an excellent pictoral review of a lovely home recently built in the Wisconsin countryside. The book is full of great ideas for both interior and especially exterior architectural details. As an interior and architectural designer, I have stolen ideas extensively for a Scandinavian style home I am working on which is currently under construction. The house featured in the book is beautifully done, but not for those seeking a subtle take on the Swedish/Scandinavian home. Disneyesque could aptly describe the overall look and feel of the home. This is not to say it does not have a great charm, but it slams its design concepts home with no punches pulled. It is an American interpretation and distillation of Scandinavia.
There are a lot of great ideas for color and design for the built interiors, but I found the interior furnishings and accessories to be ameteurish and do not live up to the professional standard of the architecture that contains it. The furnishings are rather middle of the road contemporary country style and do not suit the carefully orchestrated design concepts of the architectural designer. For instance the sofas are large and clunky, and are upholstered in a bland fabric - none of which would ever been found in a house of this type of traditional Swedish home.
With that caveat I highly recommend the book to those who admire the Scandinavian style and especially to anyone planning to design and build a home in this style.
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