It's easy to assume that the global obsession with oh-so-cool Scandinavian style and interior design is a fairly recent phenomenon. Especially if the introduction to Nordic flair came from Swedish furniture store IKEA's affordable offerings or stretched back a little further to Scandinavia's iconic midcentury modern masterpieces.
However, the effortless, sophisticated, and cozy interiors of Scandinavia and the Nordic Region (that's Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland, to be precise) have been appreciated for centuries, ever since elegant Gustavian style emerged in the 1780s, named after King Gustav III of Sweden.
