A perfect combination: a dressing room with built-in closets, a place to perch, and a mine-and-yours sink (plus an adjacent bath). This paneled, shades-of-gray design is the work of Kvänum of West Gotland, Sweden, specialists in traditional millwork and an official supplier to the Swedish Royal Court. It’s in one of their showrooms—so it’s a conceptual closet, but a lovely one. Take a look.
Above: A leather-cushioned bench overlooks a bank of built-in storage for two. The leather-and-wood hanging bar is a classic Kvänum detail: the company, which dates to 1923, specializes in custom kitchens and closets created from elements in its repertoire: this is the Modern Classic Dressing Room in Ekeby Forest Green, an in-house color. Above: Italian sinks with Dornbracht Tara faucets are set in a Kvänum vanity with slatted storage. The subway-tiled backsplash meets beadboard paneling in a warm gray from Norwegian paint company Jotun (NCS code 6502-Y). Contemplating your own beadboarding? See Remodelista 101: The Ultimate Guide to Shiplap, Beadboard, and V-Groove Paneling. Above: Kvänum’s version of a Shaker peg rail. For more, see Instant Order: 16 Simple, Smart Uses of Shaker Peg Rails from the Remodelista Archives. Above: The center cupboard offers shelf space. Kvänum delivers to the US and suggests interested customers contact their design team at [email protected]
![Flat-pack furniture may seem like a new invention, borne from the modern-day realities of small apartments and frequent moves—but leave it to Howe London to, well, dismantle that assumption.
Take-apart furniture, the antiques retailer and bespoke furniture maker points out, has roots in old French design and portable campaign furniture. And Howe London’s own take on the tradition, the Knock-Down Wardrobe, is designed, they say, “to easily dismantle or ‘knock-down’ in the same practical way the French conceived their ‘armoires’ in the 18th and 19th [centuries] and reminiscent of military campaign furniture intended to uphold a degree of home comfort for officers traveling abroad.”
With time-tested construction and nods to old design, the Knock-Down Wardrobe is well primed to fit with the practicalities of contemporary life (small doorways, for example). Take a look.
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