Swedish Country Interiors by Rhonda Eleish

Swedish Country Interiors by Rhonda Eleish

Author:Rhonda Eleish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2009-04-08T04:00:00+00:00


A late-Gustavian Swedish clock hangs in the stairwell; its glistening gilt ornament is echoed in an Italian mirror in the foyer.

The custom-made chandelier hangs above a seventeenth-century Italian dining table topped by a wooden deer.

“Old volumes shake their vellum heads and tantalize just so . . .” —Emily Dickinson

Lion-headed eighteenth-century Swedish barrel chairs sit on either side of the Swedish neoclassical settee, also bearing carved lion heads. Lions were a symbol of royalty in Sweden. A collection of South American crowns sits on a Swedish blue baroque table.



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