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Carl and Karin Larsson Creators of the Swedish Style by Elisabet Stavenow Hidemark, Michael Snodin, Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark (Paperback, 1999)

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In 1889, they acquired their famous house at Sundborn in Northern Sweden. Over 200,000 copies were sold in Germany alone. But the Larsson's inspration was not only Swedish. We may have grown, but our mission has never changed.

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These images of a busy family life were immediately recognized as having captured a Swedish ideal. The Larsson's ideas on domestic decoration, with their revolutionary approach to light and colour, became a vital element in the creation of 20th-century Scandinanvian style. But the Larsson's inspration was not only Swedish. In fact, the Sundborn style was a synthesis of Swedish folk elements and ideas taken from the English Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as Art Nouveau and Japonisme.