Carl and Karin Larsson
Subtitle: creators of the Swedish style
By: edited by Michael Snodin and Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark.
Contributors: Larsson, Carl, 1853-1919.; Larsson, Karin.; Snodin, Michael.; Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet.; Victoria and Albert Museum.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Larsson, Carl, 1853-1919 -- Exhibitions; Larsson, Karin -- Exhibitions; Carl Larsson-gården (Sundborn, Sweden) -- Exhibitions; Decoration and ornament, Rustic -- Sweden -- Exhibitions; Interior decoration -- Sweden -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
Description: Carl Larsson (1853-1919) is Sweden's best-loved artist and is known around the world for his paintings of his home and family. At their famous house at Sundborn, in central Sweden, Carl and his wife, Karin, a textile designer, created a series of revolutionary interiors that combined old furniture and objects with startlingly modern concepts of color and design. These designs gave way to a new approach to interior design that continues to influence designers today.

This book presents the Larssons as designers and as creators of a remarkable domestic ideal. It sets them in their artistic and social context, using contemporary photographs and comparative pictures. At its heart are the remarkable Ett hem paintings and a series of color photographs showing the interiors at Sundborn and Karin's textiles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-236) and index.
"[Catalog of] the major autumn and winter exhibition for 1997-8 at the Victoria and Albert Museum"--P. [vi].
"A Bulfinch Press book."