Art & Taste: Astrid Lindgren

It all began in southern Sweden in Småland. More precisely, in the Näs vicarage near Vimmerby. There, little Astrid lived with her parents and three siblings in a red cottage with white wooden windows, surrounded by forests, meadows and streams. She played with the children from the neighbouring farms, hid in barns and sheds, climbed high trees, brought the farmhands coffee in the fields and ate sandwiches with them.