Studio: international art (43.1908)

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TJOLOHOLM CASTLE

L. I. WAHLMAN, ARCHITECT


The castle contains several large and handsome dows. On the ground floor are, further, the
rooms, in each of which an individual style has billiard-room, the smoke-room, in Moorish style
been allowed to prevail, although it has always and other apartments, whilst the drawing-room, in

been made subservient to what may be called the Chippendale, the adjoining library, in a dignified

leading motif of Tjoloholm:
making a thing beautiful
without forgetting its prac-
tical purpose. The great
hall is in late Gothic, re-
lieved by rich and excel-
lent carving, and beautified
by a large decorative paint-
ing, The Queen of Sheba,
by the eminent Swedish
artist, Professor Julius Cron-
berg. The placing of the
windows and the structure
of the grand staircase are
calculated to underline the
character of the hall, which
opens into the dining-room,
of which an illustration is
given, an ideal banqueting
hall, large and festive with
its oak panelling, its elabo-
rate white stucco ceiling
and two broad, high win-

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TJOLOHOLM CASTLE : VIEW FROM DRAWING-ROOM WINDOW
J L. I. WAHLMAN, ARCHITECT