Sweden in the 18th century was in a state of upheaval - big
changes confronted science, economics and politics. Via a unique
inventory from the Christinehof archives and Viveka Hansen's
descriptive texts, we are transported to a world long gone -
to an aristocratic home in the Scanian countryside nearly 250
years ago.
We meet Madame Nordenmark who was in charge of the storeroom
keys of the house, but also the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman,
Carl Gustaf Tessin, the architect, Kajsa Varg of household fame,
and Christina Piper, founder of the entailed estate. The contacts
to and from Christinehof were far reaching. The author takes
us to the big European emporia in London, Amsterdam . as well
as to local manufacturers, such as the Kolmorden marbleworks
and Tellerstedt's furniture store. Ornamental tables, fire-making
machines, Dutch buckram, daybeds, Turkish yarn, water coolers,
barrels, bolsters and four poster beds with curtains . are only
a few examples of what the author describes in detail and explains
on the basis of the transcribed document.
"Inventariüm uppå Meübler och Allahanda Hüüsgeråd wid Christinehofs
Herregård Upprättadt Åhr 1758" forms part of the series of occasional
documents Piperska Handlingar, the purpose of which is to spread
knowledge about the world, which can be illustrated through
documents in the Christinehof archives, i.e. the history around
the Andrarum alumworks and the entailed estate Christinehofs
fideikommiss in the southern most county of Sweden, Scania.
The book is illustrated and, besides history, it contains the
complete transcription of the original document and source references,
bibliography, explanations of words and an extensive index.
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