I recently dashed into my favorite San Francisco Design Center building…
the Sobel building…to take a quick look at the Swedish Room….
Occupying a sunny front room beyond capacious domed awnings,
it scintillates with crystal and gilt and a charming trace of blues…
Sketching the space with her Swedish dreams and memories is the beautiful
owner and founder Suzanna Havden Bell, who will be closing the space soon
to focus on her interior design business and (very!) soon to arrive third boy.
As if that wasn’t enough, she sparkles with a million ideas, so I’m not sure
how relaxing her future will be. An example of Suzanna’s work can be
found in Swedish Country Interiors (click link for preview). Suzanna
designed the “Swedish Mediterranean” home in nearby Palo Alto.
Joni from Cote de Texas did a post here
that discusses the book and style further and
includes this room designed by Suzanna…
In Suzanna’s design shop in San Francisco a huge gilded 18th century rococo jardinière
sits amidst a gorgeous panalopy of regal and primitive Gustavian antiques.
Can you see this at the base of a gorgeous tall window, overflowing with plants
in a room beset with glaucose gray walls and diaphanous or period swagged curtains?
I did wonder briefly if it could be hoisted above a bed, hung by rusty chains as corona…
As you know I have a slight Ciel de Lit obsession…
A small composition of pure Swedish style…
pale and blue and rough and gilded…
Playing the full spectrum of cool to bright…
matte to shine…
simple to swagged…
Corner buffet from Stockholm c. 1790’s
Gilded cartel clock, crystal wall sconce …
Myriad of Baroque, Gustavian and Swedish Empire chandeliers….
Red folding table from the 1700’s…
One of Suzanna’s favorites…
The base of the flip top table…
character laden patina amidst all the pale paints…
Pair of Gustavian Tabourets
c 1840
Antique Mansion style daybed…another of Suzanna’s favorite pieces…
note the feet…
The Swedish Room sells both antique and historical reproduction items…
All can be found on the website here
Along with a peek at her adorable boys…
Suzanna will be closing her shop in the Sobel building at the end of this month,
warehouse her remaining treasures, and focusing exclusively on her (soon to be)
three boys and interior design business…
Email her at design@swedishroom.com for any inquiries
Incredible blues of this corner cabinet c. 1700-1750
American 8 Day clock from mid 1800’s
to be continued…
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Swedish Room
Suzanna Havden
Designer/Founder
design@swedishroom.com
Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 151
San Francisco, Ca.
Such a beautiful space. I’m sure that she and Swedish Room will be missed. Three boys is a lot to have on one’s plate.
There you are Trish, welcome back! Love that Empire chandelier and those Gustavian Tabourets but even on sale for $3920 I’ll have to take a pass. Love her look and her boys are cute!
Hi AO…yes…more zeros at the end of prices than I’d prefer. Sigh. Wish I could afford my taste!
Finally, you are back- your lovely posts were missed!
I don’t know if I could have left that shop without one of those gorgeous chandeliers- they would have had to take me out kicking and screaming!!
Thank you, Mimi!
Superb and inspiring~ I adore the jardinière. thank you for sharing! love Colette
Trish, good to be back here again (I have been terribly blog lazy this summer) and how fun to read about Suzanna! I actually know her (!) from my San Francisco day and we have a mututal good friend in Helene Ekman (Hej, Suzanna if you read this!).
She has excellent taste and I remember from her previous store (before SF) that her Mom was involed from the other side of the Atlantic.
And she is also a very friendly and fun lady!
Sorry to hear that she is closing the stor, but 3 boys and a thriving interior design business will keep her plenty busy!
Hugs to you both,
Mon
Hi Monika! Yes, Suzanna mentioned you! She intends to develop her website further…perhaps we’ll get her into the blog world!
Trish a wonderful post with so many images I adore! Suzanna has excellent taste!
Have you entered my Latest Giveaway from the French Basketeer? I think you will love it!
Karena
Art by Karena
Hi Trish,
She has absolutely beautiful things and great taste.
I also have an obsession with ciel de lit … Found one on ebay but was toooo slow to bid and someone else grabbed it!
So glad to hear from you and loved another one of your beautiful posts.
Thank you!
xo
Trish, enjoyed this look very much. The chandeliers and painted furniture pieces are lovely…
Welcome Back! Your eye for beauty has been sorely missed.
You live! Glad you returned. I’ll take a couple of those chandeliers and a few more 000’s in my checkbook, please.
So, so lovely! Thank you for this inspiring post!
Welcome back. I have missed your inspiring posts. These images are wonderful. I wish my budget matched my taste. But then that is what is so challenging, getting the look on a budget.
Hi Trish,
and I was hoping to pay Suzanna’s tore a visit at the beginning of next year. I’m due for a trip to have my son installed at AAU in Januari.
Looking at the pictures I’m proud to be a Swede, so great to see a well composed mix of antiques and reproductions,
Good to see you back,
Ingela
Hi Trish, have missed your beautiful posts and my style file lessons! What a lovely store/warehouse. Great mix of textures and objects of desire,and yes, could use a bit more fudging of the grocery money!!! Nella
Oh, she is closing :(… I’ll have to dash on up soon…great post Trish!
bisous
Kit
Hi Trish, I am glad you are back! And with a great post! I would love to go to Suzanna’s store and buy it all! I am in love with Swedish antiques!!!!
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Greet
Hello Trish,
J’aime beaucoup ces intérieurs Suédois : très beaux objets, les horloges sont vraiment amusantes…
Welcome back. I love the atmosphere in the swedish interiors. I love her taste and choice of reproductions and antiques
simply beautiful. why close?
So good to have your beautiful posts again. Swedish interiors are so stunning in their simplicity. Lovely post.
Loved every page, I actually have visited a relatives home in Stockholm that had many of the furnishings you pictured.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when we walked into her home! We stayed there for 4 days. I was really soaking it in.
Such understated elegance!
The simplicity of some of the rooms above punctuated by the lovely embellishments of prints on walls, furniture, or lovely chandeliers are lovely. Makes me want to clear out my living room and do the same…. Have a lovely day ~ xox Alexandra