Strömsö
Encyclopedia
Strömsö is a Finnish
television program (in Swedish
) which premiered in 2002 on FST
and YLE1
, hosted by Matias Jungar and Susanna Ström-Wilkinson. The show concentrates on various household subjects, such as cooking and gardening. Its fifth season started on January 29, 2006. Since the beginning of 2007 the show is hosted by Lee Esselström and Jocke Lax.
The show is made at Strömsö (from which the show gets its name), a villa
north of the city of Vaasa
. The villa was built in the 1860s and served as the summer residence for a merchant family from Vaasa for about 100 years.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
television program (in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
) which premiered in 2002 on FST
Finlands Svenska Television
YLE FST5 is YLE's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland...
and YLE1
YLE TV1
YLE TV1 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yleisradio. It is the first and oldest Television channel in Finland. More than 70% of channel's programs are documentaries, news or educative programmes...
, hosted by Matias Jungar and Susanna Ström-Wilkinson. The show concentrates on various household subjects, such as cooking and gardening. Its fifth season started on January 29, 2006. Since the beginning of 2007 the show is hosted by Lee Esselström and Jocke Lax.
The show is made at Strömsö (from which the show gets its name), a villa
Villa
A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity,...
north of the city of Vaasa
Vaasa
Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa...
. The villa was built in the 1860s and served as the summer residence for a merchant family from Vaasa for about 100 years.
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Staff
- Lee Esselström, host, expert on hobbies
- Jocke Lax, host
- Paul Svensson, cooking expert
- Susanna Ström-Wilkinson, editor (former host)
- Matias Jungar, editor (former host)
- Michael Björklund, cooking expert
- Jim Björni, workshop expert
- Catharina Borg-Wilén, gardening expert
- Wivan Fagerudd, gardening reporter
- Camilla Forsén, art expert
- Elisabeth Morney
- Owe Salmela, florist
- Noora Vuorimaa, wine expert
- Johan Ångerman, carpenter