Swedish Impression

<div align="center">Good morning, my friends! At first glance, this home seems to be somewhere in Sweden, doesn't it? It is actually located in the Hudson Valley, just north of Manhattan. Martina Arfwidson is Swedish and she came to New York to learn to sing. Here she married David<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">Weiss and they bought and restored this 1800s home. T</span><span class="hps">oday</span> <span class="hps">she runs her</span> <span class="hps">cosmetics</span> <span class="hps">firm</span> <span class="hps">Face Stockholm</span> <span class="hps">together</span></span> with her mother.<br /></div><center><div align="center">Tour time!<br /></div><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0256.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0256.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0875.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0875.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0722.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0722.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0385.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0385.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0781.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0781.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0365.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0365.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=hall.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/hall.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0564.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0564.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0453.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0453.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0525.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0525.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=veranda.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/veranda.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0200.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0200.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=0303.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/0303.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Photography Paul Brissman<br /><a href="http://www.skonahem.com/inspiration/Inspirerandehem/dar-floden-flyter-fram">Source</a></span><br /><br /></center>

Swedish Impression

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Fairytale Retreat in New York

<div style="text-align: center;"> An update to this post, dears. My blog friend <a href="http://doina-onthisandthatblogspotcom.blogspot.com/">Doina Manea</a> told me she had seen an article on this cottage in the New York Times. There are more lovely photographs and you can real all about the making of this cottage. Here is the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/garden/24cottage.html?pagewanted=all">link</a>.<br /><br />Located near the Catskill Mountains in the state of New York, this 10 square metre hut served as an overnight cabin for local hunters in the 1940s. Laura Foster turned it into a mini Victorian fairytale retreat.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="Den ombyggda jaktstugan ligger i en glänta i skogen. Björn och prärievarg syns ofta stryka omkring i området. " class="articleImage" src="http://www.skonahem.com/scaled/460x0/Global/Skonahem/skh13/sagohus/skh13sagoetta.jpg?h=a9f39ea767b049e7e9b9d4c2ac84bb4c" width="460" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.skonahem.com/Global/Skonahem/skh13/sagohus/skh13sagavardagsrum.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 1118px;" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.skonahem.com/Global/Skonahem/skh13/sagohus/skh13sagasovrum.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.skonahem.com/Global/Skonahem/skh13/sagohus/skh13sagafonster.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 1124px;" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.skonahem.com/Global/Skonahem/skh13/sagohus/skh13sagabordmedduk.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 1051px;" /><br />A happy Sunday to all my lovely readers!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.skonahem.com/inspiration/Inspirerandehem/Sunkig-jaktstuga-blev-sagohus">Source</a></span><br /></div>

Fairytale Retreat in New York

An update to this post, dears. My blog friend Doina Manea told me she had seen an article on this cottage in the New York Times. There are...

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Interior Designer David Kleinberg

Today, interior designer David Kleinberg lets us step into his newly furnished Manhattan Apartment. Elegant and decidedly masculine. Come on in and see with me.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="" class="featureimg" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-entry.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 649px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-living-room-1.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 649px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-living-room-2.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-living-room-3.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-dining-room-1.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 649px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-dining-room-2.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 649px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-kitchen-1.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-kitchen-2.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-study.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 649px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-master-bedroom-1.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-master-bedroom-2.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-dressing-room.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/09/david-kleinberg-new-york-apartment/david-kleinberg-master-bathroom.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br /><br /><br /><br />Photography by Eric Piasecki<br /><br />All images from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.<br /><br />

Interior Designer David Kleinberg

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Seaside Cottage in New York

An early 1880s seaside cottage in New York whose former owner was Gloria Vanderbilt was renovated by interior designer Robin Bell. In her words: "It's sort of Swedish-meets-Bloomsbury style, which is English, but in a bohemian Arts & Crafts way. I downplayed the grandness of the house by decorating in a cottagey way. Everything is asymmetrical and deeply comfortable. I didn't want the furniture to look too fussy, so nothing matches except a pair of chairs."<br /><br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/V7/16-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 450px; height: 575px;" /><br />A poolside arbor hung with wisteria makes an outdoor dining room. The table's marble top was a marble yard castoff, and Bell designed its iron base. Bell designed the iron chandelier and hanging lanterns; both are inspired by streetlights she saw in Harbour Island, Bahamas.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/RK/17-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -5px; left: -6px; width: 502px; height: 393px;" /><br />The pool house's ceiling and border were inspired by a Moroccan tile mosaic. Artisans painted it on beadboard for a tentlike effect.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/O2/18-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px;" /><br />A sunburst mirror frame in the pool house has "a funny tentacled look that's almost aquatic," says Bell, who adapted the simulated bone and ivory mirror from one she spied in a shop.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/tj/1-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 450px; height: 575px;" /><br />Voluptuous 50-year-old wisteria vines drape a Victorian wire gazebo under which stand Victorian wire peacock chairs and a wire table.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/O3/3-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 449px; height: 573px;" /><br /> The dining table was copied from an American antique at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was faux-grained by artist Lindsey Tipler.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/Cc/2-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 449px; height: 573px;" /><br />All the upholstered furniture in the living room was designed by Bell and arranged in one large but intimate seating group.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/vv/4-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 449px; height: 573px;" /><br />Artist Lindsey Tipler also painted the faux-mahogany finish on the clients' wheelback chairs and the table in the foyer between the dining room and study.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/oI/5-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -5px; left: -6px; width: 508px; height: 397px;" /><br />In the living room, Bell used a mix of antiques and modern furniture, curvy and tailored shapes. She created a fire surround mosaic of seashells. On the blue table from John Rosselli, lamps and black candle holders are from Robin Bell Design.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/lO/7-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 449px; height: 573px;" /><br />Bell created a plush reading nook with a Moroccan flair on a window seat under the stairs.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/IU/6-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 451px; height: 576px;" /><br />An 18th-century American harvest table with original paint and 19th-century American shawl-back chairs in the classic white kitchen. Above the island is a wrought-iron pot rack designed by Bell, hung with the clients' pot collection bought on trips to France and Italy.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/Ql/8-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 450px; height: 575px;" /><br />A second-floor landing has classic striped rag runners by Woodard Weave. Family photos are divided into two wall groupings: black and white on one wall, color on another.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/WW/9-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 453px; height: 578px;" /><br />When the clients returned from Paris with an album of Honoré Daumier prints depicting the stages of a marriage, Bell took it apart and covered a wall of a guest bedroom with the framed prints.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/BN/11-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -5px; left: -6px; width: 501px; height: 392px;" /><br />The sofa, armchair, and ottoman in the study are covered in antique toile.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/2p/10-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 452px; height: 577px;" /><br />In the wife's art studio, Bell added paneling consistent with late-19th-century Shingle Style architecture.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/JZ/13-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px;" /><br />An amber hurricane from William Yeoward and seashell bowls from Robin Bell.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/2P/12-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 450px; height: 576px;" /><br />A covered porch has a mix of antique wicker; fabric is "lemonade- and sangria-proof," says Bell.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/Xb/14-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -5px; left: -6px; width: 503px; height: 393px;" /><br />Bell moved the master bathroom's original cast-iron tub to the window for unobstructed sky and ocean views.<br /><br /><img id="fb_image" src="http://www.housebeautiful.com/cm/housebeautiful/images/sH/15-easyandageless-0508-xlg.jpg" style="top: -55px; left: 44px; width: 452px; height: 577px;" /><br />In the master bedroom, a sandalwood four-poster bed from Sri Lanka is topped with a lattice cutwork tester cover, Monique VV in cream by Old World Weaver.<br /><br />All images and information from <a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a>.

Seaside Cottage in New York

An early 1880s seaside cottage in New York whose former owner was Gloria Vanderbilt was renovated by interior designer Robin Bell. In her wo...

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