A Beautiful 1898 Historic Home in Norway Perfect for Art Lovers l HOUSE TOUR

Today we're taking you inside the Oslo apartment of jewelry designer Camilla Kutzen. After discovering this historic 1898 home, she and her family spent nearly two years restoring it, bringing back the old world glamour that once defined the space. With intricate original moldings and rooms filled with art collected from around the world, the home blends classic Scandinavian craftsmanship with Camilla's eye for contemporary design. Warm and full of stories, this is a family home brought to life through Camilla's creativity and love of beauty. To watch Camilla's full home tour ad-free where she shows off her spectacular apartment, click the join button below. Hi Homeworthy, I'm really looking forward to showing you our home in Oslo. Come on in! So you're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. I'm Alison Kenworthy, the founder of Homeworthy, and we take you inside the world's most beautifully decorated homes and introduce you to the brilliant people who live there. Hi Homeworthy, I'm Liz Lang. Welcome to Gray Gardens. Click the join button below to access all of our latest episodes ad-free and watch extended cuts of this and other homes, opening the doors to new rooms and exclusive content featuring our beloved hosts. I can't wait to see them. I'm so excited. And if you're looking to shop items inspired by this and other Homeworthy tastemakers, be sure to use the product links below or scan the QR code on screen to find fabulous furniture, coffee table books and accessories that can transform your house into a home. My name is Camilla Knutsen. I'm a jewelry designer and this is our home in Oslo. We bought this house or this apartment in 2022 and we renovated for almost two years, so we moved in April 2024. The building that this apartment is in is from 1898, so it's a very old building with beautiful 3.5 meter ceilings. When we first time saw the apartment, it had not been renovated for 38 years, so there was a lot of work that needed to be done, but we wanted to keep all the details, the high ceilings. We didn't want to make any down lights, so our vision for the apartment was kind of to bring it back to the old glamour that the apartment once had in the 18th century. This is the entrance where we welcome our guests and also where my kids come home after school and put their shoes everywhere, but right now it's quite tidy in here. This room looked, it didn't look like this, but it had the same space when we bought the apartment and we kept the old moldings, of course, and the high ceiling. It took six months to renovate the moldings because there were, I think there were eight layers of paint that needed to be removed. These are small lion heads, so when we removed all the paint, the beautiful details would, you know, come through again. And then we have three pieces of art here. The first one is a Norwegian artist named Per Barkly. I love him and what he does is that he puts oils on the floors and then he takes these beautiful big pictures of old buildings. This is a stable in Venice, actually, and it's also a connection to our home in Italy, which I really like. This is Marie Beauvoir. She's a Spanish artist and these pictures has been, it's a whole series. We own one of them. It's from old buildings in Algerie and I also love the feeling that it's kind of like we look out when we look at the picture. These were very common in Norwegian buildings like two, three hundred years ago. They were not here when we were renovated, but the architect, which is Andreas Martin Löf in AML in Stockholm, he had the idea of rebuilding the way the apartments looked before and like, yeah, two, three hundred years ago. And this is a painting from Mary McCartney or a photo from Mary McCartney, the sister of Stella McCartney. And I think it's super cool and adds a bit of an edge to this very classic room. This is also a way that floors used to be in Norway in apartments like 200 years ago. They look like they've always been here, but they haven't. But it was important for us that we brought back the old ground of this beautiful apartment. That is mostly for my cookbooks and also for my literature. But the books that I read are mostly in the drawers here and in my bedroom. But I cook a lot, so they come very much in handy because the kitchen is right over here. And I think that these are very beautiful cookbooks and they inspire me to make something new every week. So this door is the inspiration for all the wood that is here in the hall and also all the wood that there are in other elements of the house. And the door is original and it was very important for us to keep it. So let's walk into the kitchen. So the kitchen starts with the bar area. Here is a collection of almost only old glasses. Most of them I have inherited by my grandmother. Just a few new ones, but most of them are old. And this is also my husband's little coffee station. And we also have a big wall here of personal pictures of our children, drawings, things that make me happy to look at every day. And then there is the kitchen. This was originally a living room. It looked like this. This picture is taken by a Swedish artist and he actually came just after we started renovating and took this picture. And as you can see, the door was very small, but the beautiful molding was there. So we of course kept that and removed all the old paint and you can see the angel's faces coming through again from the old painting. This is Portuguesian marble and the whole kitchen island is in one piece. So there was a lot of excitement if we would even get it into the apartment. We had to remove the whole window and then it was lifted in by a crane. I think it's a piece of art in itself. And we also really wanted a kitchen island, but I really wanted us to sit down, not like have the high chairs. And this is why we built the kitchen island, but in a normal sitting height. In addition to a lot of glasses, I've also inherited a lot of porcelain tableware from my grandmother. So they are in this cabinet over here and the cabinet over there and in here. We have a lot. And this is my all-time favorite, the teapot I got from her. She gave it to me when I was 16 and I don't think I understood at the moment how valuable it is, but it's one of the first teapots made by Royal Copenhagen. We always have a lot of fresh flowers in the house everywhere. Cannot live without the flowers. And this is the same artist, Marie Beauvoir, the one that was in the hall. And it's a painting of newspapers. I really think they go very well in the kitchen. And of course there are a lot of cookbooks. And our little dog, she's 15 years old. The hood is designed by Andreas Martinlöf, the architect who helped us. He works in Stockholm, but I really wanted to work with him because I do think he has this special touch that we were after. So he designed the hood. So we are the only one who has that hood. In Stockholm is also one of my favorite hotels that is called Et Hem. And they have these counters. So this is actually a copy of their cabinets that they have in their kitchen because I do think they're so beautiful and an inspiration. And they are also a hotel that has in their kitchen, they have a lot of fresh food and vegetables everywhere. And it's also space for that here, which I love. The stove is actually amazing. I've been really wanting to have a stove like this since forever, but I never had the space. It's 240 and it's Le Corneau. So it has two ovens and a lot of cooking plates. And this one is actually the napkins that we had at our wedding. Me and my husband, we got married in 2023. So I had made a lot of them. So I used them for kitchen towels. And it reminds me of our wedding every day. We like it very warm. We are art collectors. So there is art everywhere. In our living room, we have a beautiful wallpaper from Le Corneau. There are a lot of details, like for instance, the wallpaper in the guest bathroom. It has the same pattern as a coat I bought the first time I was traveling with my husband. The tables in the dining room are made of onyx, which is a jewelry stone that connects to my job as a jewelry designer. And there are small personal objects everywhere. So now I will show you our dining room, where we really wanted to have the feeling of restaurant. And that is why there are three different tables here. We have a lot of dinner parties and even more family dinners. So four of us, we sit here and then we move on to the bigger spaces when we're more people. And the wallpaper is from Le Corneau, which is a favorite of mine. It's hand painted and it has this soft beige color that brings a lot of warmth to the room. And with a lot of flowers. I really love flowers. The curtains are inspired by the curtains at Annabelle's in London. They have the same shape as them, which I really like. And the art piece in the ceiling is from a Danish artist called Veronica Hodges. And it consists of 3000 paper flowers. And it's supposed to symbolize flower from the beginning when it's almost hasn't sprung out and until it's faded at the end of the year. It's, I think, one of my favorite pieces in the house. The bar trolley from English company called the Lacquer Company. We don't drink that much, so it's mostly sodas here. And in the weekends, we put dessert on here for weekend dinner. Or if I bake a cake, the cake is just here the whole weekend so that you can just go and help yourself. These are also from Sweden, from a company called Svensk Ten. I think they are like most of the things in the house. They are contemporary, but at the same time very warm and inviting. And they're really comfortable to be seated in. Same as these, they're also from Svensk Ten. This table is designed by the architect. So it's made just for us. And it has these waves, you can see on the sides, that is inspired by the ocean. And the ocean is very important for us. We also have a summer house and we're close, very close to the ocean. So I think it is a beautiful detail. And this table has the onyx top, both of them, the green onyx, which is also a stone that has been used in jewelry. So it is kind of connected to my job and what I do for a living. And I think they are, the green color is just amazing with the wallpaper. This very soft light, which is important for me because I don't want it to be too bright. I think it's much cozier and homey when the lighting is a bit dimmed. So now we're going into the living room, which I think is an amazing, very colorful room. The fireplace, we have just renovated the fireplace. It's the original one. And we're so happy that the previous owner didn't take all of these beautiful features like the molding. This molding has a lot of faces and grapes. So the details are just amazing. The lamp is vintage from Sweden. And the coffee table is also vintage, the same as the candles down here. There's also a Swedish designer called Joseph Frank. This amazing big painting is from an American artist called Adriana Nives. We had to measure the door opening in the hall before we could order the painting because we weren't sure that we would get it in. Because as you can see, it's huge. I think it's 320 long. So it's really a big piece of art. And this is a Norwegian artist called Vibeke Tanberg. And this was one of the first, this one is called Beautiful. And it's the first gift my husband gave me when we started dating. So then I was sold, of course. This one is also very special to us. My son was in a huge accident in 2023. And he was hospitalized for a long time. And when he finally moved home after the hospital, after, I think, six months in the hospital, and we had moved in here, my husband bought this picture for me. It's from also an American artist, Joel Milester. And the word life means a lot. And this is the colorful piece that brings it all together in our living room there. The statue from Annie Moritz. We really love it. And I think it brings so much life into the room. I really wanted the couches to also be a little bit different. So this is why one is in yellow, and one is in pink. But they are in the same fabric, so they're still kind of connected to each other. This is the door to the veranda where we sit a lot during summer. In winter, we're not using that space that much since we live in Norway. So I started my career in finance, and I worked there for many years. But when I was pregnant with my child, number four, I decided it was time for me to do what I've always wanted to do, to work with something creative. So I founded my jewelry company while I was pregnant with him. And it was very slow in the beginning, which was really good since I also had a little baby. But now I have jewelry clients from all over the world, and my company is 12 years, just like my son. This room, I must say that my children use more than me because I don't have much time to watch TV. But it's a very cozy space. I wanted the couch to be Prada green. I think they almost nailed it. And the table is also made for us, and it's shaped like a cloud, which I think is really beautiful. This piece of art is probably very recognizable to a lot of people. It's Damien Hurst. And I think it lights up this rather dark room. This piece of art is very interesting. It was a gift from me to my husband. It's a Norwegian artist called Anna Graf. So these are the components that are in the brain when you have Alzheimer's. I think she has made this kind of glass, the gobble, for a lot of various diseases. And it's a reminder to take care of our health. It's a bit provocative, but I think it's also very cool. This is also a Norwegian artist called Ragnablai. And there's something about the colors in her paintings that I really love. And these are all the magazines that I'm supposed to read, but I never have the time to read them. So they're lying there waiting for me. The rug is also like a bigger cloud than the smaller silver cloud. So it's a playful room. And the couch is also super comfortable. All the floors, except from in the hall, are made of wood. And they also have this beautiful frame, which I love, that gives them the special touch. And the wood changes the direction here. It changes the direction in three places. So it's this way here, and then it's vertical here, and then it's another direction in the entrance that goes to the children's bedrooms. And it makes it all a bit exciting and something to look at everywhere. Now I will show you where I spend every evening after we've had dinner, and I've helped the kids with their homework. On the way to the bathroom is this beautiful photo of a Spanish artist called José Guerrero. And I do think that it's so cool to have it in the opening, so that it's like another, in the door opening, so it's like another room in the room. And then every evening, I have like 30 minutes here, all by myself in the bathtub, and just have some time off without my phone and without helping anyone with anything. This floor has been enforced to be able to hold this super heavy, big bathtub. And it's just an amazing room, I think. The shower door, you will see, has the same hand-hammered glass that in the original door in the hall. But these glasses are not made anymore, so we had to have a glass specialist to do it, and it took nine months to make. It's four doors, it's also in the children's bathroom. It took nine months to make this because every little bulb is hand-hammered. We also have wood in the bathrooms. Like I said before, wood details everywhere, so that it's all connected with the original door in the hall. And these mirrors are also handmade for us. And as you can see here, there is a small detail in the marble that it kind of goes in, and then you put the mirror inside. And I also like the shape, that it's not rectangular. It's the same marble from the same block that has been used in the kitchen. So all the marble in the house is from the same big block with the brown stripes. I didn't want black, I wanted brown, warm. And we also have the same marble in the children's bathroom. Our dining room has three dining tables, so it's almost like a little restaurant. It has one table that seats 10, one table that seats six, and one table that seats four. And we have a lot of dinner parties, and also it's very important with family dinners in this house. So it's both entertaining and a lot of family life and family dinners that is being, you know, lived here. So this is our bedroom. As you can see here, we have the same wood details here. And that is my shoe closet, but I don't have my shoes on display because I like them to be, I like it to be tidy. These nightstands are made for us. I really like the round contemporary design. This chair is a piece of art in itself, I think. And here are the books that are waiting to be read by me, and also the book that I read for my little son, which is the Swedish author. And the book is from when I was a child myself. This table is also vintage, it's from the States, actually. And it's shaped like a curtain, which I think is really elegant. This is a vintage chair from Sweden that just has a new fabric. And this little space is my creative corner where I do my home office work. It's not where I meet clients or anything, but it's just a place where I can be creative in the evenings or weekends. And I also love the little details with the space for the flower in the bedroom. Because like I said earlier, I really love to have flowers everywhere. The rug is made of silk, and also specially made for this bedroom. The art piece is a Norwegian artist called Veronica Baird. And this is a picture or a painting from when her mom was sick, and she was nursing her mom for a long time. So it's a bit provocative, but it's also very cool, I think. And the bed is from Hestens. It's amazing and very, very comfortable. So I love to go early to bed in the evening and try to read something before I go to sleep. I would say the style is contemporary, but at the same time very colorful and lively. And it's 300 square meters, all on one floor, with three children's bedrooms, one master department, a very big kitchen, big dining room, big living room, and a very cozy TV room. So I will show you the guest bathroom and the children's bathroom. These drawings are from Richard Prince. I really wanted to own something from him for many, many years. So I was very pleased when we were able to buy something from him just a few years ago. This is the guest bathroom, and this wallpaper is from Gucci, and it has the same print as a coat I bought on me and my husband's first trip together. So everything is kind of connected in this house. It also has a sink made of the same marble as the rest of the house. The floors, as you can see, is in marble, but it has the same frame as the wooden floors. And it also has this hidden cabinet, which is almost impossible to see and hidden in wallpaper. Home means where my family is, so that is the most important that they are here. And also it means a place where I can cook, which is very important to me, and I do that every day. Homeworthy, it was really nice meeting you, but I have to go pick up my kids now, so you have to go. Bye. Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides, and so much more.