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“Stop here a moment.”

Rickard Rotstein pauses as we approach the entrance to his Swedish island summer home. There’s not much to see. Ahead is a windowless box of a structure, only 26 feet wide and a bit more than 9 feet tall. Rather than sit on the ground, it appears to float above it, with a rocky slope rising underneath so that the two meet

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