Clas på Hörnet Clas på Hörnet Clas på Hörnet is a hotel and restaurant on Surbrunnsgatan in Vasastan, Stockholm, Sweden, located to the northeast of the Stockholm School of Economics. It was founded by restaurateur Christer von Arnold in 1984. The building itself was originally the Browallshof inn, founded by Clas Browall in 1731. The 18th-century inn is famous in history as it is frequently mentioned in the poetry of Carl Michael Bellman. In 1731, Clas Browall (d. 1742) and his spouse Annika Browall (d. 1749) bought the building called "Hjärpes gård" (Hjärpe farm) for their mutual savings from the inn "Ingemarshof", where
The Popular (department store) a Hungarian immigrant who had previously opened two other retail stores in the area, Tres B (Buena, Bonita, Barata/Good, Pretty, Cheap) and The Fair which he had founded in 1900. Schwartz closed The Fair in 1902 and it was succeeded by The Popular, which he opened with his nephew Maurice Schwartz and other relatives. In 1907, the Popular moved from the northeast corner of El Paso and Overland Streets to Mesa and San Antonio and consisted of three floors by 1914. In 1917 Schwartz transformed The Popular from a general store to a modern department store with a six-story building