Catarina Skoglund’s home sits on Asperö, a car-free island in the Gothenburg archipelago on Sweden’s west coast. After more than fifteen years in the city, she and her family chose a life closer to nature again, without entirely losing the connection to city life. “Living close to the sea brings an everyday sense of freedom,” she says. “The stillness here is rare to find anywhere else.”

For the past eight years, Catarina has worked as an interior stylist and content creator, after leaving the fast pace of a career in fashion. She is drawn to the visual process itself, shaping mood and atmosphere, and the feeling of being in a creative flow. Nature is where she turns for perspective, whether through yoga or a run in the forest when she needs to unwind. Music is equally central. It has been present since her early teens, and when she wants calm, she listens to the Beatles, a sound that takes her back to childhood.

The house is a typical wooden home for the Swedish archipelago, a two-storey fisherman’s house built in the 1930s. Inside, Catarina keeps the palette calm and nature-inspired, leaning into natural materials and a mix of design classics, antiques and personal pieces collected over the years.

She follows the same instinct when it comes to collecting art. “At a first glimpse, I believe it’s the colour tones,” she says. “For me, art is more about a sense and a feeling, something that moves me.” Among her most treasured pieces are rare John Lennon lithographs, gifted by her father.

Her Curated by selection is rooted in longstanding connections and immediate attraction. Photographer Laura Short has been a favourite for years, and someone Catarina has met and worked with in person. She is also a longtime admirer of Lucrecia Rey Caro, whose work already has a place in her home. And then there was love at first sight: Isabelle Vandplassche’s Comb prints, where the colour combinations and the concept itself stood out, especially Horse Comb. If she has to choose one favourite, it is Pegasus by Another Art Project, drawn to its composition and hand-drawn feeling. “I really like blue and sandy pink tones together,” she says, which is why she paired it with a pink passepartout.