The 1960 Rais wood stove from Denmark—the one that started it all.
Weekend Cabin: Lagom Cabin
Not too little, not too big
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape—for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite.
In the early teens, Seattle architect Carsten Stinn was wandering through a salvage store when he came upon a special find: a 1960 Rais wood stove from Denmark. Freestanding, with a shelf on top and wood storage below, it was a classic Scandinavian design. He didn’t actually need a wood stove back then, but he nevertheless handed over nearly twelve hundred dollars, and then, he said, “When I brought it home, my wife
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