Carl and Karin Larsson : Creators of the Swedish Style

by Snodin, Michael; Hidemark, Elisabet

• ISBN13: 9780821227138
• ISBN10: 0821227130
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

Presents the first comprehensive English book about Carl Larsson, Sweden's best-loved artist, and his wife Karin, a textile designer, who revolutionized interior design and established a Swedish-inspired style that continues to attract a worldwide following. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Michael Snodin is the author of numerous books and the Head of the Designs Section in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dr. Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark is the former keeper of the Department of Textiles, and the Department of Furniture and the Household at the Nordic Museum, Stockholm.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
House elevations and plans	viii
Introduction	1	(9)
Michael Snodin
Sweden in the 1890s	10	(11)
Eva Eriksson
Carl Larsson: his life and art	21	(32)
Torsten Gunnarsson
A home of its time - but completely different	53	(21)
Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
Domesticity and design reform: the European context	74	(14)
Gillian Naylor
Looking at Lilla Hyttnas	88	(72)
Michael Snodin
Karin Larsson	160	(24)
Lena Rydin
The Larsson approach to old furniture	184	(12)
Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
Translation and transformation: Carl Larsson's books in Europe	196	(16)
Cecilia Lengefeld
Carl Larsson's images -- mass publication, distribution and influence	212	(8)
Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
The Larsson design legacy: a personal view	220	(10)
Lena Larsson
Chronology	230	(2)
Select Bibliography	232	(2)
Notes	234	(2)
References	236	(1)
List of Exhibits	237	(3)
Index	240	(2)
Illustration Acknowledgements	242