Since the 13th century, Swedish monarchs have called the Royal Palace in Stockholm home.
Baroque architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger designed the current 600-room, Roman-style palace after a fire destroyed the previous structure in 1697. When Tessin died, architect Carl Harleman completed the structure.
Tessin’s Royal Palace design exemplifies the Tessin Gold Baroque style. The Tessin style includes the essentials of the baroque style with its rich ornamentation and symmetrical design elements (particularly s-shaped curves in art and furniture designs) but with French and Italian influences, not seen in Sweden’s baroque style before. Prior to Tessin, Northern European art and architecture had informed Sweden’s early baroque style (Caroline Period)….