Svindersvik is an 18th-century country residence located just outside the city limits of Stockholm. It was built in the 1740s for Claes Grill, who decided to build a country residence on the location. The property consists of a main building, a pavilion, a kitchen wing, a formal garden, and an orchard.
The main building’s design reflects contemporary French Rococo architecture. Though the exterior appears as a one-storey house at first glance, it is a two-storey house, similar to Svartsjö Palace, also by Hårleman.
The entrance is reached by a flight of double stairs, and set in the centre of the façade which protrudes in the way of an avant-corps with rusticated lesenes and pediment. On the opposite side, facing the Baltic Sea, a three-sided avant-corps instead serves to mark the symmetrical centre of the building. Svindersvik is now owned by the Nordic Museum and is open to the public through guided tours.
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Written by Nik Frost
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