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Wooden Lighthouse
Dating from 1840, the
wooden lighthouse at Bönan
also served as a pilot station.
It marked the shipping route
into Gävle. The building
is now a museum.

Modern Wooden Architecture
The Nordic Watercolour Museum (see p220) in
Skärhamn on the west coast opened in 2000.
The Danish architects Bruun/Corfitsen have clad the
building’s steel and concrete shell with vertical
wooden panels in red, using this traditional material
in a public setting.
Two-storey houses are common
in Hälsingland. The finest have an
attic floor with half-windows.

Merchant’s House in the Archipelago
In the late 19th century Stockholm’s upper
middle classes spent their summers in the
archipelago, where they built magnificent
wooden villas with verandas, summer
houses, bathing huts and boat houses.

Foundations
are a course of
cobblestones.
Porticoes and outer
doors are particularly
richly ornamented and
painted. Other details
include turned pillars,
intricate woodcarving
and elegant roofs. The
designs vary from
parish to parish.

Fishing Cottages at Decorative Woodwork
Kungshamn More expensive wooden
In fishing villages on the houses dating from around
rocky islands of Bohuslän, 1900 were often a riot of
where space is tight, timber- fretwork and rich
clad houses in pastel shades ornamentation, known as
crowd in higgledy-piggledy “carpenter’s joy”, on verandas,
fashion around the harbours. entrances and gables.

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