On an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden, architect Thomas Sandell and his wife, fashion designer Anna Holtblad, have built a tiny guesthouse cabin alongside their bigger main house. It’s wedged between the rocks and the sea, and when Thomas decided to extend it he left the rocks untouched, instead of simply levelling them. Thus the house became almost a part of nature.
The couple had looked around many potential summer houses when Thomas saw this place for the first time in 1994. He fell for it right away. On that October day, when he boarded the estate agent’s boat, the season for summer houses was over. Anna decided not to come on the journey and stayed at home because the weather was so bad.
