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HOTEL REVIEW


Ett Hem Stockholm


Words: Guy Dittrich Photography: ©Magnus Mårding


Designer Ilse Crawford has curated a guesthouse filled with antiques, art and classic Scandinavian furnishings, in a 1910 building in Stockholm’s Östermalm district.


translates as ‘A Home’ and the curation of homely items from owner Jeanette Mix’s personal life, including artwork and books, is just part of the enduring ambiance of the house. Without question, the ratio of 14 staff to 12 rooms helps develop that ambience and it is interesting to note that everyone refers to the hotel as the ‘house’. Instinctively this just feels right; it doesn’t feel like a hotel. Guests are visitors in a friend’s house – a friend with great taste who has thought of everything. Even before she bought the house in 2006, Mix


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called on the services of Landström Arkitekter to ensure that the property could indeed function as a working hotel. “The key issues were to secure escape routes and a new lift,” explains Magnus Stenmark, project architect. Planning alone took over three years – a particular sticking point being the insertion of the glasshouse in the small courtyard garden. Within the building, constructed in 1910, is


Landström’s other most obvious architectural intervention – the addition of a new staircase accessing the five guestrooms in the attic space. These rooms together with the new conservatory


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esigned by Ilse Crawford of London- based Studioilse, Ett Hem is a 12-room guesthouse in the refined embassy quarter of Östermalm in Stockholm. The name


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