Antiques & auction houses

Swedish officers and men brought home thousands of carriage-loads of war loot from central Europe in the 17th century. In the 18th and 19th centuries rococo, Louis XVI and Empire style furniture was the latest craze among aristocrats. The two latter were translated into the much admired Gustavian style in Sweden.

Their descendants have taken good care of the family heirlooms since then and Stockholm has not been conquered by a foreign army since 1520, so very little has been destroyed.

All this has created a huge supply of antiques and an auction market for fine art and antiques that is totally disproportionate to Sweden's size. A quick look in the online catalogues from the major auction houses - Auktionsverket and Bukowskis - will tell you what is being traded and why dealers and collectors from all over the world flock to their big international auctions in May/June and November/December.

With such an enormous supply and a lively market, there are antique dealers in proportion. You will find a selection below.

And there are trade fairs of course. The biggest one is the annual Antiques Fair at the Stockholm Trade Fair in February each year with 150 exhibitors and tens of thousands of visitors. The ultra elegant Grand Antiques is held every even year in Mid-November.

Auction houses:

Auktionsverket Nybrogatan 32, 114 39 Stockholm, Phone: +46 (0)8 453 67 50, www.auktionsverket.se is the world's oldest auction house - established in 1674. They have auctions more than 75 days per year, trading 60.000 objects from world class fine art to second hand stuff. Internation Auctions twice a year, so called city auctions every second week with illustrated on-line catalogues. Info on their site.

Baroness Fredrika Charlotta Sparre, painted "aux trois crayons" by French rococo master Francois Boucher in 1741 and sold with an immaculate provenance by Stockholms Auktionsverk in Dec. 2004 to an American collector for . Actually, they had sold it once before - in 1771! Photo: Stockholms Auktionsverk

Bukowskis Arsenalsgatan 5, 111 47 Stockholm, Phone: +46 (0)8 614 08 00, www.bukowskis.se is the market leader in fine arts and antiques. This is where you turn heirlooms into cash when your manor needs a new roof and your bank account has dried up. Their subsidiary Auktionskompaniet at Regeringsgatan 47 (next to NK) takes care of the lesser objects.

Specialized auctions:

Kaplans auktioner Biblioteksgatan5, 111 46 Stockholm, Phone: +46(0)8 545 016 00 www.kaplan.se specializes in jewellery and watches.

W.A. Bolin AB Stureplan 6, 114 35 Stockholm, Phone: +46(0)8 545 077 70 specializes in exclusive jewellery. Established in 1796 in St Petersburg, the company has been court jeweller to four Russian czars and three Swedish kings.

Ahlströms Myntautioner Norrmalmstorg 1, 111 46 Stockholm, Phone: +46(0)8 10 10 10. Specializing in coins banknotes, medals and orders of distinction.

Antique and fine art dealers

Note: dealers with underlined address are all within a few blocks of each other in the eastern central part of Stockholm, so this area is convenient for browsing.

Afrodite Antik Odengatan 92 113 22 Stockholm +46(0)8 31 75 00

J.M. Alfort Antikhandel Sibyllegatan 47, 114 42 Stockholm +46(0)8 660 63 15 jorgen@alfort.bonnier.se. Specialising in Swedish furniture and decorative items 1750-1830. Call for appointment.

Antikaffären Ariadne Köpmangatan 22 (Old Town) 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 411 85 35

Antikt & Modernt Upplandsgatan 44 113 28 Stockholm +46(0)8 30 74 31

Antique Maps & Prints, C.E Thomas Köpmantorget 2 (Old Town) 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 10 73 01

Apollo Antik- & Konsthandel Tegnérgatan 5 111 40 Stockholm +46(0)8 21 90 98
One of Sweden's largest store. Glass, porcelain, art, jewellery, silver, furniture.

Award Antik Karlavägen 15 114 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 27 07

Bacchus Antik Upplandsgatan 46 113 28 Stockholm +46(0)8 30 54 80

M. Berglöfs Antivitetshandel Kommendörsgatan 14, 114 48 Stockholm +46(0)8 667 33 05 berglofs.antik@tele2.se. Old Master paintings, 17th and 18th century furniture and mirrors, art deco and modernism.

Lars Broberg Antikhandel Grev Turegatan 56, 114 38 Stockholm +46(0)8 660 40 26 mariaulrikabroberg@hotmail.com. Helping several museums to build major collections of furniture, art and objects from the 16th century to 1840.

Björn Kreuters Konst & Antikhandel Köpmangatan 18 (Old Town) 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 21 03 33

Bord och Stol i Stockholm Upplandsgatan 42 114 40 Stockholm +46(0)8 30 84 14

Carlén Antikviteter Upplandsgatan 40 113 28 Stockholm +46(0)8 31 34 01

Charlott's Antik Gamla Smycken Odengatan 54 113 22 Stockholm +46(0)8 34 57 97

Dala Antiktjänst Dalagatan 36 113 24 Stockholm +46(0)8 32 12 02

Domino Antik Upplandsgatan 25 113 60 Stockholm +46(0)8 33 78 58

Lars Edelstam Konst & Antikviteter Linnégatan 26, 114 47 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 49 80 www.edelstam-antik.se Specialising in Swedish gustavian furniture and decorative objects.

Epok Odengatan 83 113 22 Stockholm +46(0)8 34 13 40

Förr eller Senare... Skomakargatan 24 111 29 Stockholm +46(0)8 10 25 23

Gamla klockor Roslagsgatan 22 113 55 Stockholm +46(0)8 15 26 36

Galleri Frendberg Nybrogatan 48, 114 40 Stockholm +47(0)8 661 29 01. www.frendberg.nu. Specialising in carpets, both oriental and Swedish.

Gamla lampor Nybrogatan 3 114 34 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 90 35

Hagelins Antik Karlavägen 22 114 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 678 35 25

Hopareboden Österlånggatan 31 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 10 75 30

Jackson Design Sibyllegatan 53 114 43 Stockholm +46(0)8 665 33 50 www.jacksons.se. Specialists in Scandinavian design from 1880-1980.

L.Y. Johansson Smycken och Antik Kommendörsgatan 20B 102 48 Stockholm. lars-y.johansson@bredband.net Jewellery, silver, furniture and decorative objects from rococo to empire style.

Karla Antik & Inredning Karlavägen 71 114 49 Stockholm +46(0)8 660 74 73

Kenth Lindströms Moderna & Antika AB Roslagsgatan 7 113 55 Stockholm +46(0)8 612 29 90

Knutsson Antik- o. Konsthandel Kommendörsgatan 9 114 48 +46(0)8 660 81 70

Lundgrens Antikhandel Kommendörsgatan 20A 114 48 Stockholm ian@lundgrensantik.nu. Chandeliers, furniture, art and objects from the 17th to 19th centuries. International clientel.

Medusa Antik Kåkbrinken 10 111 27 Stockholm +46(0)8 23 90 35

Modernity Sibyllegatan 6 114 42 Stockholm +46(0)8 20 80 25 www.modernity.se. 2oth century design by major Scandinavian designers.

Moser & Klang Konsthandel Riddargatan 12 114 35 Stockholm, +46(0)8 611 55 16, Scandinavian art by major artists from 1880-1930.

Mästerby Antik Roslagsgatan 9 113 55 Stockholm +46(0)8 612 53 60

Norrmalms Uppköpsaffär AB Roslagsgatan 19 113 55 Stockholm +46(0)8 15 70 24

Nostalgipalatset S:t Eriksgatan 101 113 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 34 00 61

Novara Guld Silver Antik AB Karlavägen 59 114 49 Stockholm +46(0)8 661 67 00

Ostindiska Kompaniet Linnégatan 19 114 47 Stockholm +46(0)8 667 28 25

Polstjernan Arsenalsgatan 5 111 47 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 39 73

Rehns Antikhandel Sibyllegatan 26 114 42 Stockholm +46(0)8 663 34 51 rehns@telia.com. Swedish and international art and antiques.

Kurt Ribbhagen Birger Jarlsgatan 13, 111 45 Stockholm. +46(0)8 545 07 860. Specialising in silver, jewellery and gemstones, new or antique.

Skajs Antikhandel Lästmakargatan 6, 111 44 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 76 80 mikael.skaj@telia.com. Specialising in Swedish antiques from the 18th century.

Steven Harrison Antik Karlavägen 74 114 59 Stockholm 08-661 87 12

Antik Inger o. Dan Roslagsgatan 21 113 55 Stockholm +46(0)8 15 80 24

Thunér Antikhandel Sibyllegatan 45 114 42 Stockholm +46(0)8 662 52 28 info@thunerantikhandel.com. Swedish objects from 1750 to 1830 mailny furniture and mirrors.

Tropius Antik AB Nybrogatan 42 114 40 Stockholm +46(0)8 662 33 37 wahlstrom.antik@telia.com. Specialising in empire style furniture art and objects. Exqusite exhibition.

Wasa Antik Upplandsgatan 66 113 44 +46(0)8 33 00 80

Wigerdals Värld Upplandsgatan 24 113 60 Stockholm +46(0)8 31 64 04

Viking Antikhandel Grev Turegatan 46 102 42 Stockholm +46(0)8 510 139 38. Specialising in manorial interior objects and furniture.

J P Willborg Sibyllegatan 41 114 42 Stockholm 08-783 02 65 www.jpwillborg.com. Antique carpets, textiles and african art.

P.S.T Windahl Fine Oriental Antiquities and Works of Art Storkyrkobrinken 3, (Old Town) 111 28 Stockholm, pw@nordisk-kommunikation.com. Chinese art with emphasis on the Song-dynasty.

Wirén B E Kindstugatan 13 (Old Town) 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 411 26 24

Vita Valvet Antik Odengatan 90 113 22 Stockholm +46(0)8 32 82 05

Zedell Konst o Antikvitetshandel Köpmangatan 3 (Old Town) 111 31 Stockholm +46(0)8 21 02 39

Åmells Birger Jarlsgatan 14, 114 34 Stockholm +46(0)8 611 41 93www.amells.com. If power shopping is your plan, this is the place. Sweden's leading dealer in fine art by old masters and Scandinavian turn-of the century painters.

Gudrun Ödman Antikhandel Grev Turegatan 45 114 38 Stockholm +46(0)8 660 78 51. http://www.gudrunodmann.comFocus on Swedish gustavian furniture and decorative objects from the 18th > century until 1840, as well as selected charming artifacts from later dates.

Östermalms Fyndmarknad Karlavägen 89 115 22 Stockholm +46(0)8 662 74 38

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