The artillery stables
Built in hard times and in great haste when extreme cold threatened to decimate the regiment’s horses in the winter of 1835. (But don’t mention it.)
The ceiling fans
From the Carossa Srviza windmills in California’s Napa Valley.
The horse
A copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Cavallo di Forcione, it weighs approx. 6800 kg. The sketches were found under the marble floor of Siena Cathedral in 1971. Sculptors: Peter Apelgren and Sven-Ingvar Johansson. The commission took four years and two months to complete.
The water station
Brought from a mountain village outside Bergamo.
Painting: Näst sista måltiden, “The Last But One Supper”
A free interpretation of the Last Supper. Traditional painting by artist Peter Apelgren.
Statues
From Florence.
The floor
Walnut floorboards in four different widths, dismantled from a slaughterhouse in northern Sicily.
Granite
Cut crosswise, and several other ways.
Mosaic
Copy of a traditional tavern floor in Pompei. A similar copy can be admired in the restrooms of oil magnate J. Paul Getty’s house in Malibu.
The doors
“Honestly stolen” from the Marchese di Torrigiani’s estate at Campoccia 88 in Florence.