Buildings and interiors

Kathryn Parker photo

Posted Jul 13, 2009 at 15:34 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Fashion, and Photos.

This is a photo Kathryn Parker took of me last summer in the Echo temple in the Haga park.

Fastes de cour at Versailles

Posted Jun 30, 2009 at 17:51 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

I just returned from a short trip to Paris where I visited the Fastes de cour exhibition at Versailles. It was an amazing exhibition and I was particularly happy to see a Russian court dress and the most beautiful yellow redingote.

Click the photo above to go to a Flickr set containing my photos from the exhibition, plus some more from Versailles and the Petit Trianon.

Edit: The exhibition ended a couple of days ago.

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Gunnebo och andra sommarnöjen från 1700-talet kring Göteborg

Posted May 25, 2009 at 14:51 CEST in Books, Buildings and interiors, and Swedish books.

Gunnebo och andra sommarnöjen från 1700-talet kring Göteborg by Lars Sjöberg and Staffan Johansson is a book mostly about Gunnebo, a late 18th century summer house near Göteborg. The book has plenty of information about the history of the building and the architecture and interior, accompanied by many photos and pictures of the original plans. At the back of the book there are a few shorter chapters about other 18th century summer houses in the Göteborg area.

I love this book and recommend it. The photos are gorgeous and there are many of them, and the text is interesting and fun to read. As far as I know this book is only available in Swedish.

(By the way, I just added a “buildings and interiors” category to the right.)

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Slott och salar i Sverige

Posted Jul 23, 2008 at 20:02 CEST in Books and Buildings and interiors.

Slott och salar i Sverige by Massimo Listri and Daniel Rey
This is a book about Swedish castles and mansions and mentions several from the 18th century. The photos in the book are really beautiful, but other than that I was pretty disappointed with this book. Every castle or mansion gets a chapter, but there is very little real information. There are mostly anecdotes and speculations and pretty much nothing about historical architecture or interior decorating. Another big problem with the book is that there are no captions, nothing is told about the beautiful rooms and buildings in the pictures. I’m glad I have the book because of the photos, but I would not recommend it if you actually want to learn something.

The book is published in both Swedish, English and Italian. In English as Great Houses in Sweden and in italian as Interni di Svezia.

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Opening day of 18th century weeks at Skansen

Posted Jul 15, 2007 at 12:53 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Events, Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, Photos, and Swedish events.

The opening of the 18th century weeks at Skansen was yesterday. Click the photo to go to my flickr set with photos of my outfit and Skogaholm manor at Skansen.

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