For the past 100 years, villa hotel Vår Gård has beckoned travelers to get outside Stockholm’s urban center to Saltsjöbaden, a lower-key coastal getaway on the Baltic coast. Built in 1897 as a private villa, the hotel has evolved into a nature-rich destination with a formidable art collection featuring talents ranging from the megawatt to the homegrown, among them Marc Chagall, Isaac Grünewald, and Carl Milles. With the opening of the property’s new fine dining restaurant Villa Skärtofta, haute cuisine and high art are equally on offer.
Interior design by Elin Lervik tempers the historic space’s more imposing characteristics with plants and contemporary accent lighting and furniture. This balance allows the restaurant’s series of rotating art installations, led by Evelina Dovsten’s glass assemblages that evoke deep-sea life, to shine in their own right. On the menu, head chef John Bråsth combines Italian influences with Nordic ingredients on a rotating tasting menu.
