Östermalms Food Hall

This guide to Ostermalms Food Hall in Stockholm follows two young architects, Isak Gustaf Clason and Kasper Salin, racing an impossible six-month deadline in 1888 to raise a market hall using an iron-framing technique borrowed from Gustave Eiffel's Paris ironworkers. You'll hear how King Oscar II opened the doors that November, and about the years of near-failure that followed as stalls sat empty and outdoor vendors undercut business right outside. It traces what finally forced trade indoors and filled the hall with the smells it still carries today.