Some homes are carefully decorated. Others are carefully listened to.

At Glorup, Clara Rosenkrantz lives among generations of history with warmth, curiosity and an instinctive eye for beauty - tending to an extraordinary home where flowers are always fresh, stories live in the walls, and restoration happens gently, room by room.

HB: When you first realized that Glorup would become your home, what did you feel? not just about the place, but about what it would mean for your life? 

CR: The first time I visited Glorup, when Jacob courted me, I felt at once that it was a place of wonder. It is strikingly beautiful and elegant, yet also filled with that indefinable charm found in rooms where each piece, whether old or new, exists in quiet harmony with the others. I have always felt welcome here. Glorup was made for celebration and laughter, and it is my greatest task to nurture that spirit.

The consequence of moving to the countryside scarcely crossed my mind. I followed my heart and I have never regretted it. Though I remain, at heart, a city girl, I must confess I have found happiness here. Perhaps city girls are merely country girls in cuter outfits.

HB: How do you make space for your own identity and way of living within a place that carries so much history?

CR: No one is entirely free when they carry a hundred ancestors behind them. Yet it is important to my husband and me that we allow ourselves to create something of our own. Always with respect for the cultural heritage we are entrusted to care for.Fortunately, I have a deep affection for old things and would far rather mend than replace. Still, I delight in adding new curtains or reupholstering a chair, small gestures that breathe fresh life into the old.We share a belief that with wisdom a house is built, through understanding it is sustained, and through knowledge its chambers are filled with all manner of beautiful things.We restore only one room each year, so that we may be certain each decision is the right one.

HB: In what ways does your creativity show up in your everyday life? both within the home and beyond it?

CR: Glorup will always remain a profound source of inspiration to me. From its stories, I have created two cookbooks, allowing its gastronomic history to live on and bring joy to others.I have also discovered a deep and quiet happiness in the garden. The vegetables I grow myself often become the beginning and inspiration of new dishes.

HB: Has living at Glorup changed or deepened your perspective on aesthetics, materials, and the way a home feels?

CR : Since moving here, I have become more attuned to beauty. Anything brought into this house must possess a certain grace, otherwise it never truly belongs. Helenes husbond once said something that really help me a lot. If something is beautiful it belongs no matter what time periode or where in the world it’s from. If the beauty speaks to you then let it live in your home.

It is, after all, a large home, and I take care to create small, intimate corners, little refuges of warmth. There are always fresh flowers; I have no fondness for the stillness of a dusty museum.

To me, a home is where life unfolds, and it is perhaps for that reason that I feel most at home in the kitchen.

HB: Looking ahead, how do you envision the interiors of Glorup evolving over time?

CR: Above all, our vision for the future is to care for this place and to move gently forward, restoring Glorup room by room.

My husband inherited it from his grandmother, who never undertook renovations. As a result, it has not been restored since the late 1920s, which lends it a rare and singular character. It feels only right to proceed with care and patience. In this way, the joy of each renewal becomes all the greater.

This year, we plan to give the old estate kitchen a touch of love and new colour, and to adorn our wrought-iron garden set with cushions from Helene Blanche.