Why has the neoclassical Gustavian style become so prominent in the Swedish self-image? A new dissertation from Uppsala University shows how researchers in art history, along with museums, commercial ...

Twenty years ago, when Hakan Groth moved from his native Sweden to London, hardly anybody outside his home country had heard of 18th Century Swedish antiques. Nor was the term “Gustavian” widely ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Open any interiors magazine, on practically any continent, and you will see pages of beautiful, white rooms filled ...

Whether one is looking at the exuberantly decorated furniture of the rococo period (early 1700s) or the subdued Gustavian style that followed in the late 1700s, Swedish design continues to resonate ...