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Examples
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And yet very few of the objects are actually French: an English Regency table between the windows, a Gustavian porcelain stove, Swedish chairs (or are they Russian?).
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A can of paint does wonders—I particularly love Gustavian grays and dusky greens—but I also like stripping old wood pieces and treating them with beeswax.
Monastic Fantastic Jen Renzi 2011
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If you are speaking of true Scandanavian furniture, especially pre-20th century modernists interpretation of it, the 19th and 18th century scandanavian designs are quite lovely and have beautiful art work, particularly Gustavian and Mora.
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The brother and sister and his wife and her husband could not agree on who would have the bisected antique mirror or the Gustavian rococo furniture.
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The brother and sister and his wife and her husband could not agree on who would have the bisected antique mirror or the Gustavian rococo furniture.
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This landed property was afterwards called the "Gustavian patrimony".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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I am aware that some will regard this as a questionable statement; for the academicism of Tegnér is not the stately, bloodless, Gallic classicism of the Gustavian age, of which
Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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This book, which includes two such residences plus a client's Gustavian-minimal manse in Aspen, is as sumptuously decorated and photographed as eye candy gets.
SFGate: Top News Stories Molly Glentzer 2011
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Look for the grayed-out Gustavian and Belgian furniture available in catalogs such as Restoration Hardware and Wisteria.
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Look for the grayed-out Gustavian and Belgian furniture available in catalogs such as Restoration Hardware and Wisteria.
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