Daddy's Room. From A Home (26 watercolours)

Daddy's Room is one of twenty-six watercolours Carl Larsson made of his family home Lilla Hyttnäs at Sundborn in Dalarna, published in 1899 as the illustrated book Ett hem (A Home). The series became one of the most influential visual documents of the Scandinavian Arts and Crafts movement, setting the template for the bright, sparsely furnished, plant-adorned Swedish domestic interior that would influence home design across Europe and, later, twentieth-century Scandinavian design philosophy. Larsson and his wife Karin, a textile artist, had transformed the small red farmhouse given to them by Karin's father into a living experiment in integrated design, rejecting Victorian clutter in favor of simple furniture, folk-inspired decoration, and natural light. Daddy's Room — the artist's own studio-study — reveals how this philosophy extended even to the working space: an artist's room that is personal, comfortable, and visually coherent rather than impressively professional.

Watercolour on paper executed with Larsson's characteristic combination of precise outline and luminous transparent washes. The architectural space is carefully constructed with confident perspective, while surface decoration, textiles, and furnishings receive detailed attention. The medium's transparency allows white paper to function as the primary light source throughout the composition.