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The Swedish Home of Greta Garbo

-The Lovely Dwelling–Original as Greta Herself–in her
Own Fatherland to which the Star Has Retired -

The exterior of Garbo's little two story house, atop a hill on a private and otherwise uninhabited island in the Swedish Archipelago

This is the living room of Garbo's country house, simple, sunny, the room of a woman of excellent, cultured taste

From the porch, from all the rooms, Garbo looks out an silent waters, no traffic, no crowds, and not an autograph hunter within a hundred miles. Garbo's island is forty-five minutes away from Stockholm. The house was originally inhabited by one of Sweden's most famous dentists and was decorated by Nils Sjörgren, a distinguished Swedish sculptor

This is the entrance hall, with old red bricks for the flooring, a bas relief of Sjörgren's work on the walls, an antique chest and chair for furnishings and bits of color added in the dishes of Swedish pewter and cooper. Can you imagine Mata Hari in such surroundings? Yet wouldn't you expect the Viking Venus to choose a home as distinctive as this?

In Hollywood the would call the room at the top of this and the next page a “whoopee” room. The same simplicity s shown here and a great originality. White bear skin rugs contrast with the red brick floor. Red bricks make the mantel for the open fireplace. There is a low divan, a silk rug in vivid red, yellows and blues. The walls are dead white. The center table is hand carved oak, unstained but highly polished. The room is lighted by candles in Swedish silver candlesticks or, for reading, by an old monastery lantern (hanging from the center wall in the picture across the page)

If Garbo wants big parties (and she does give them occasionally in Sweden) her friends dine in the room above. When she is alone, she uses the charming little breakfast room at the buttom of page 42. Below is the bedroom of the lady of mystery, with the bed built into the wall, shutting of all possible noise and light. The glorious Greta suffers from insomnia. The tiny chairs are covered in the same delicate toile that makes the bedspread and pull curtains. Incidentally, on the island Garbo is known simply as Miss Gustafsson, a name as common the Swedes as Smith is to us

Photographed by Emilie Danielson
Exclusive to Movie Mirror

The Swedish Home of Greta Garbo -The Lovely Dwelling–Original as Greta Herself–in her Own Fatherland to which the Star Has Retired -
	The exterior of Garbo's little two story house, atop a hill on a private and otherwise uninhabited island in the Swedish Archipelago
This is the living room of Garbo's country house, simple, sunny, the room of a woman of excellent, cultured taste
	From the porch, from all the rooms, Garbo looks out an silent waters, no traffic, no crowds, and not an autograph hunter within a hundred miles. Garbo's island is forty-five minutes away from Stockholm. The house was originally inhabited by one of Sweden's most famous dentists and was decorated by Nils Sjörgren, a distinguished Swedish sculptor
This is the entrance hall, with old red bricks for the flooring, a bas relief of Sjörgren's work on the walls, an antique chest and chair for furnishings and bits of color added in the dishes of Swedish pewter and cooper. Can you imagine Mata Hari in such surroundings? Yet wouldn't you expect the Viking Venus to choose a home as distinctive as this?

In Hollywood the would call the room at the top of this and the next page a “whoopee” room. The same simplicity s shown here and a great originality. White bear skin rugs contrast with the red brick floor. Red bricks make the mantel for the open fireplace. There is a low divan, a silk rug in vivid red, yellows and blues. The walls are dead white. The center table is hand carved oak, unstained but highly polished. The room is lighted by candles in Swedish silver candlesticks or, for reading, by an old monastery lantern (hanging from the center wall in the picture across the page)


If Garbo wants big parties (and she does give them occasionally in Sweden) her friends dine in the room above. When she is alone, she uses the charming little breakfast room at the buttom of page 42. Below is the bedroom of the lady of mystery, with the bed built into the wall, shutting of all possible noise and light. The glorious Greta suffers from insomnia. The tiny chairs are covered in the same delicate toile that makes the bedspread and pull curtains. Incidentally, on the island Garbo is known simply as Miss Gustafsson, a name as common the Swedes as Smith is to us
Photographed by Emilie Danielson Exclusive to Movie Mirror
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