The
Corner Salon
This
salon was a kind of public room for the former nobility families of Svaneholm.
It was the room where they went a nights, the men for conversation and
smoking, the women for doing needlework. Sometimes they had some of the
"cavaliers" from the neighborhood as guests. (Cavalier is
a French word for a nobility man with good manners)
Admire the magnificent furnishing in "Karl Johan-style", the
style that was modern during the first half of the 19th century, the age
of crinolines. (Karl XIV Johan was king of Sweden 1814 - 1844)
One of the portrait paintings on the wall imagine count Augustin Ehrensvärd,
Svaneholms last private owner.