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Travel Photo: Welcome Aboard Lifebuoy Pile

December 30th, 2011 at 6:00 pm » Comments (0)

Another Swedish boat art objects I found in a shop in Waxholm, when we were out on a roadtrip recently, is this pile of lifebuoy’s with the text Welcome Aboard.

It’s a pity we don’t have any room for them at home, otherwise we would have bought one. It would have been fun to decorate our [...]

Old Swedish Pettersson Boats

December 13th, 2011 at 7:18 pm » Comments (0)

The last boat posts has lead to this post about the very Swedish boat type called Pettersson-boats after it’s creator, the legendary Swedish boat designer Carl Gustaf Pettersson (1876-1953).

Carl Gustaf Pettersson designed those very special 7-10 meter long wooden boats with straight and high sterns in the mid 10’s. They soon became very popular among [...]

Funny Stockholm Design Chair

November 30th, 2011 at 9:00 pm » Comments (1)

One of Stockholm’s attractions for tourists is design, besides art and museums. I spotted this funny design chair back in Stockholm one day recently.

I would love to have this chair in my home, wouldn’t you? But I’m not so sure about the color of the chair though…
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