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Interior design Gert Wingårdh, Wingårdhs

Interior design Gert Wingårdh, Wingårdhs

Inspired by the building’s origins, Wingårdhs’ interiors sympathetically hark back to the Art Nouveau movement.

Subtle hints of femininity nod to the property’s past as a girls’ school. Swedish materials, such as limestone, oak, and natural leather, have been used liberally alongside parquet flooring and arched windows. The atmospheric restaurant is accentuated with cut-glass pendant lamps, leather oxblood banquettes, and floor-to-ceiling windows facing Sveavägen boulevard.

Architecture Gert Wingårdh, Wingårdhs

The hallmarks of the original building—high ceilings, expansive windows, and grand rooms—are gloriously intact.

Originally conceived by architects Hagström & Ekmanremain, the building is one of the city's most cherished Art Nouveau edifices. Architect Gert Wingårdh had the task of preserving the traits of the 1910 building while interpreting them in a contemporary manner. “You might say that we’ve started from the lines of the original architecture and elaborated them in a kind of abstract, modern day Art Nouveau,” Wingårdh explains.