Inspired by the documentary, The Tree Lover, which explored the link between trees and people in Sweden, Britta, a guesthouse owner, and Kent, a fishing guide, created the Treehotel when an area of forest behind Britta’s guesthouse was sold for logging. Instead of waiting for the inevitable to happen in a country where forestry is such an important industry, they contacted the forest’s owner and offered to buy the land from him. Calling in favours from various architect friends Kent had been on fishing trips with, they started building the Treehotel, determined to demonstrate that the natural environment around them had value beyond supplying timber. Along with daughter Sofia, who also moonlights as a stuntwoman, what they have created is a high design, back to nature retreat, which is made up of tree house units, each with a different theme and designed by a different architect.
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