Huset = Swedish for Home
The Swedes just have a knack for making cosy and yet cool house ware products. This new
Swedish import is on Abbot Kinney and is a great place for gifts and things. My most favorite items are natural bark vases, the chair above with grey sheep skin and the carved birch lantern which has the cut out of a forest scene.
1316 Abbot Kinney
Venice
The Story:
As a child growing up in Iran I was introduced to Scandinavian and German Christmases. My mother who had lived in Austria for a few years as as child also bestowed her love of German Christmases to my brother and I with hand made German ornaments, Lebkuchen (Cookies), and songs about O Tannenbaum. Still to this day I get homesick for German/Scandinavian-Christmases-done-full throttle-with-an-Iranian- yet-bohemian-twist. The Ingmar Bergman films I absorbed in my teens also make me yearn for a snowed in Swedish kind of sensibility. The brilliance of Fanny and Alexander is that Bergman is commenting on a multitude of ideas: being wealthy, being poor, being Jewish, being Swedish, being old, the vulnerability of children, being haunted by ghosts, step parents, living in one’s imagination for survival and so much more. In his world my yearning for a German-Persian Christmas would be quite all right . . .
