When we’re not steadily researching the most dreamy A-Frames and actually affordable prefab cabins, we continue to obsesses over the simplicity of Scandinavian summer home design. This week’s architectural inspo comes from a familiar place—Sweden—and doesn’t disappoint.
With a design directly inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s iconic 1951 floating Farnsworth House, Villa Kymmendö sits atop a barely-there private island in the Stockholm Archipelago on two ten-meter wide cantilevered planes. Just a few km from the city itself yet seemingly set adrift in the Baltic Sea, the hyper minimalist, 230-square-meter house is employs 360 degree floor-to-ceiling glazed windows with large sliding partitions that extend the open-plan living space onto generous terrace and patio spaces.