My mother created this interpretation of the Carl Larsson house in 1:12 scale miniature twenty five years ago. The house has been on display in several museums and galleries, including the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. She has fine art and design degrees from Stanford and Parsons, so the house is spectacular.
Now that my mother is too old to haul her houses to galleries and museums for display, I have created an online photo gallery so that she can share the joy of her creations with the world. Now 90 years old, she has memory issues but remembers her dollhouses.
This house is an interpretation rather than an exact replica of the real Carl Larsson house. It is decorated for a Swedish winter holiday in 1910. The shell of the house came from a shop called Ah Miniatures! in Minneapolis. My mother did all the exterior and interior trim work and made some of the furniture herself. Her interior design motifs came from the paintings and photographs in the book Carl and Karin Larson: Creators of the Swedish Style, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1997, distributed by Bullfinch Press and edited by Michael Snodin and Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark. I have included a photo of her original copy with tabbed notes.
Carl Larsson was one of Sweden’s most well-known artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
I revised and condensed the original posts of the house from December of 2023 and reposted them in May of 2024.