No English country house is complete, or so it sometimes seems, without an Aga at the heart of the kitchen — yet it’s a Swedish invention whose roots are rooted in a tragic explosion, as Martin Fone discovers.
Housed inside Stenstorp’s beautiful Court House, the Dalén Museum has, since 1996, celebrated the life of one of Sweden’s greatest inventors, Nils Gustav Dalén (1869 – 1937). His finest achievement while Managing Director of Svenska Aktiebolaget…