6. The Dining room
In here they had breakfast at 9 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at 6 p.m. The everyday china was a blue and white English Wedgewood set of porcelain, which was a wedding gift to his parents. That set of china is still being used on his birthday, the 6th of July, when the Övralid Foundation hands out a special prize to a writer/poet or literary critic/researcher. Then they serve Heidenstam’s birthday menu:
As a starter: char from the Lake Vättern. Main course: fried chicken with new potatoes, gravy, pickled cucumber and jelly. As dessert: strawberries and cream.
On display in this room we have the Nobel Prize diploma and the medallion amongst other marks of distinction.
The soldier hanging on the wall is General Ernst von Vegesack, his grandmother’s father, who was a great war hero in the family.