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It was built by a theatre-loving
merchant above a granary.
Performances take place here
in the spirit of the early 19th
century and the grain has made
way for a museum.
Environs
Husbyringen, north of
Hedemora, is the location
for a 60-km (37-mile) circular
tour, taking in the countryside Carl Larssongården, a place of pilgrimage for interior designers
and local culture. There are
mining centres en route and Environs r Sundborn
Kloster has the ruins of an Stora Tuna, 4 km (2 miles) Dalarna. 12 km (7 miles) NE of Falun.
abbey. The star feature is southeast of Borlänge, is the * 800. @ n 023-600 53.
Stjärnsund’s 18th-century traditional centre of the flat lands.
mining settlement, where The medieval church was built at In the village of Sundborn is Carl
the father of Swedish the end of the 15th Larsson gården, Lilla Hyttnäs,
mechanics, Christopher century with the aim of home of the artist Carl Larsson
Polhem, worked. becoming Dalarna’s (1853–1919). The well-preserved
Polhemsmuseet cathedral, but the interior contains wooden
exhibits the work province never furniture, traditional Swedish
of this inventive became a diocese. textiles and influences from the
genius, including Its treasures include a Arts and Crafts movement and
the Stjärnsund 15th-century crucifix. Art Nouveau. Sundborn’s
clock and ingenious At Ornässtugan, it shingled wooden church, built
Polhem lock. Christopher Polhem is said that in the 16th in 1755, features paintings by
(1661–1751) century the future Larsson (1905) and the graveyard
F Theaterladan king, Gustav Vasa, fled contains the artist’s family plot.
Gussarvsgatan 10. from Danish knights via the privy. Nearby, Stora Hyttnäs manor
Tel 0225-210 64. Open times vary. is a complete home from the
8 phone for tour. E Jussi Björlingmuseet early 20th century with a textile
∑ teaterladanhedemora.se Borganäsvägen 25. Tel 0243-742 40. collection and garden.
E Polhemsmuseet Open Sep–May: Tue–Fri; Jun–Aug:
Stjärnsund, 15 km (9 miles) S of daily. Closed some public holidays. E Carl Larssongården
Hedemora. Tel 0225-803 05. & 8 = 7 Tel 023-600 53. Open Jan–Sep: daily;
Open times vary. & 8 pre-book. E Ornässtugan other times: by appt. Closed public
- = 7 8 km (5 miles) NE of Borlänge. holidays. & 8 obligatory. - 7
Tel 0243-22 30 72. Open May: pre- limited access. ∑ carllarsson.se
book; Jun–Aug: daily. & 8 E Stora Hyttnäs
e Borlänge obligatory. - = Tel 073-550 62 25. ∑ storahyttnas.se
Dalarna. Road 50/E16. * 49,000. £
@ n Sveagatan 1, 0771-62 62 62. Carl and Karin Larsson
_ Dalecarlia Cup (early Jul).
∑ visitsodradalarna.se Through his book A Home (1899), the interior design of artist Carl
Larsson and particularly his wife, Karin, as expressed in their house in
Dalarna’s second largest town, Sundborn, attracted attention worldwide. The couple had lived
Borlänge came to prominence around Europe before settling with their children in a wooden
in the 1870s when the farmhouse in Sundborn. Here they were
Domnarvets Jernverk iron- able to develop their ideas for home
works was established and interiors, producing a decorative scheme in
several railway lines came traditional rural Swedish style using rustic
together here. But it only furniture, home-woven textiles and colourful
received its town charter in country patterns combined with a touch of
1944. In recent years it has the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau
movements. This was in strong contrast to
gained a university college to the stifled, bourgeois tastes which prevailed
add to its iron and paper at the end of the 19th century. The joy and
industries. Jussi Björlingmuseet happiness in the Larsson home can be
celebrates the town’s greatest traced in every brushstroke and line of his
son, the internationally book illustrations, which perhaps explains
renowned tenor Jussi Björling why Carl and Karin’s Swedish idyll continues Karin and Kersti by
(1911–60). All his recordings to inspire interior designers (see pp30–31). Carl Larsson
can be enjoyed here.

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