Walther and Wilhelmina were an immensely rich couple who had commissioned a Mediterranean "palazzo" for Wilhelmina's steadily growing collections, and for Walther's need there for an office wing from which he could run the family business empire.

The rooms and its collections, containing around 50.000 objects, are giving a glimpse into the lifestyles of the nobility in Stockholm at the time. 

The mansion was built between 1893-98, according to the designs by the renowned architect, Isak Gustaf Clason (1856-1930). 

Walther came from an old Swiss noble family, with its ancestral seat, the Schloss Hallwil in Aargau.

The art loving couple had three daughters, of which one, Ellen (1867-1952), became an accomplished sculptress. Ellens son by her first marriage, Rolf de Maré, founded and ran the avant-garde Swedish Ballet Company (Ballets Suédois) in Paris in the 1920´s, and was the initiator of the Danse Museum (see also: https://www.tripendy.com/location/dance-museum)

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