Some may insist it's the recent record high temperatures, but I truly do love winter better. Ask me now, during a heat wave and a drought. Or ask me later this year, in the middle of a blizzard. I will always like cold weather better than hot. Which has me really excited about this dream escape to a simple yet well-appointed cabin in Lapland:
1) The Northern Lights as featured in an article on magnetic fields in The Smithsonian.
2) About the only time I want to be surrounded by all knotty-wood walls is in a snug little cabin north of the Arctic Circle. As long as everything else is simple, walls like these by Noricasa Design & Construction are beautiful.
3) wood stove by Rais
4) bed by Hästens...
5) ... with comforter by Scandia Down
6) and reading material by Robertson Davies.
7) Sheepskin Rug from Pottery Barn
8) Artek Lounge Chair 43 by Alvar Aalto
(Images: as linked above, collage by Regina Yunghans)
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Yes, a dream cabin in Lapland. I am also a winter person -(-out for long hikes almost every day in winter, an avid snow shoveler, veteran of many winter tent camping trips, one lasting a month. ) Nice cozy cabin, all you need is the fixings for hot cocoa or a toddy.
I love the Hastens catalog. It's total bed pr0n. But if I ever have an extra $10k to spend... that's where it's going.
Robertson Davies! One of my favorites!!
This sounds like heaven - I can't wait for summer to be over!
I have a funny Robertson Davies story...
When I was in university, I went to a reading by Robertson Davies. Just as he began, someone (okay, a really cute guy) came in quietly in the back, but Robertson Davies insisted that he come down and sit in the front row. Anyways, Davies went on and on, with his deep rich voice, and his not-quite-English-but-definitely-private-school-and-upper-crust-Canadian enunciation, occasionally chuckling at his own witticisms, when suddenly, he roared at the student in the front to WAKE UP, embarrassing him in front of the whole assembly.
I remember telling my English prof about the experience, and she snorted, saying "good on him! (the student who fell asleep), because Davies is a pompous old fart!".
Fast forward two years, and I am moving in with my (French) partner-for-life-to-be (that was 23 years ago), and I come across a few books of Davies', duplicates of mine. Pierre starts telling me how he once went to reading of Davies' a couple of years before, but fell asleep...
Yup, that was him.
(And yup, Davies *was* pretty pompous and old-school.)
So maybe not my chosen reading material for a Nordic cabin. (personally, I'd go with a Nordic writer...)
Oh, I was beginning to feel like I was the only nut who dreamt of a cabin in Lapland! If I had my way, I'd live there all year long!