The Royal Palace of Stockholm, Stockholm

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"The Secrets of the Royal Palace"

 

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Airview from Logården at the Royal Palace, screenshot from documentary "Kungen och jag".
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"Just finished the work week to recharge before the Book Fair. Had the privilege of visiting the Bernadotte Library with a fantastically knowledgeable guide and librarian. The library contains, among other things, the royal book collections, about 100,000 books that belonged to our kings and queens, but also photos and a music archive. Oldest book is from the 15th century. Magical feeling to enter this room and feel the beat of history".
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A visitor's video from the visit to the Royal Palace

At Youtube of The Royal Palaces
The solar cell installation on the roof of the Royal Palace has been expanded by almost 1,400 square meters. That is more than a doubling of the previous solar cell surface. It is now possible to produce 30 to 35 percent of the palace's energy needs locally.

 

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At Instagram of the Nationalmuseum
"How does a place look today compared to about 150 years ago?
In the painting View of Stockholm Castle by Carl Stefan Bennet (1800–1878) we can take part in a view that many of us recognize well. Here, the moonlight gives the scene a dreamlike character. Dark figures move soundlessly over the soft snow cover and in the magical light sled tracks and moon shadows appear. Can you recognize yourself in the painting and see the change in our contemporary view of the same place? What has been added and what has fallen away in the approximately 150 years that have passed?"
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The Royal Palaces at its Instagram
The Bernadotte apartments consist of fourteen rooms in the northern side of the Royal Palace and houses, among other things, the portraits of the Bernadotte family - from Karl XIV Johan and Desideria to Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia. The paintings are made by contemporary leading artists such as Per Krafft, François Gérard, Anders Zorn and Emil Österman, to name a few. Many visitors stop and admire a portrait that is radically different from the other royal portraits. The young lady in the painting is Queen Ingrid of Denmark as a Swedish princess. She was portrayed in 1932 by the well-known artist Isaac Grünewald. In contrast to many older royal portraits, the setting is simple. The composition is bold with the royal in a relaxed pose with her legs visibly crossed. Many must have considered that the artist had crossed the line of decency, because you really didn't portray a royal person that way. The only connection to the royal story is the chair the princess sits in, a so-called Sulla chair from the 1790s, designed by Louis Masreliez for Gustav III's pavilion in Haga. As far as is known, the artwork remained in Grünewald's possession but was given to her father Gustaf VI Adolf as a gift on his 80th birthday in 1962.
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The Royal Court published these winter photos yesterday
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At Instagram of the Royal Palaces:

French objects: The china cabinet
In the Victoria Salon at the Royal Palace, there is a cabinet rich in detail that draws the eye to it. It was a state gift from Napoleon III to Karl XV in 1861. The Sèvre porcelain and gilt bronze cabinet reflects the era's interest in technological progress and scientific realism. It was designed by Léon Feuchère for the Sèvres manufactory in Paris and is Sèvre's largest product ever. The Chinese cityscapes are based on paintings that the artist Auguste Borget did on location in Macao.
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French objects: The wallpapers
The Don Quixote Salon at the Royal Palace is named after the woven tapestries that hang there. The motifs are taken from the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes' story 'The Genius Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha', which was published in the early 17th century. The novel, in which the tragicomic hero Don Quixote goes on an adventure with his squire Sancho Panza, is one of the world's most read and loved classics.
The tapestry suite, including the upholstery, was woven at Les Gobelins in Paris in the 1770s and was a gift from Louis XVI to Gustav III in 1784. The master of the tapestry designs was Charles Coypel. The suite was one of the manufactory's most popular and was woven during practically the entire 18th century in multiple editions, although with constantly varying design of the framework.
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At Youtube channel of the Royal Palaces:
During the work with the statue groups on the southern facade of Stockholm Palace, an exciting discovery was made. In one bottle they found two messages - one from the late 19th century and one from the 1990s.

They tell at the video that they are going to put now an own message to the facade during this renovation.
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At Instagram of the Royal Palaces:

The facade renovation
This lion's head, a so-called lion mascaron, is newly carved and sits at the top under the roof at the central part above the southern arch of the Royal Palace's southern facade. There will be a total of six individual copies of the original lions, carved in Rorschacher stone from Switzerland. The original lions were created in the 1730s by Antoine Belette from drawings by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger.
"The lion mascarons are about 1.2 m high, about 1 m wide and about 0.8 m deep and weigh about 1.8 tons each. The original lions were so weathered that it was deemed necessary to replace them entirely. They were made of Gotland sandstone and the Rorschacher stone has similar properties but is more resistant to weathering," says Maria Chung Roslund, site manager from M3 Bygg AB.
Photo 1 shows the new lion, photo 2 shows the plaster model and photo 3 shows the old lion.
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At Instagram of the Royal House and the Royal Palaces
"Happy Easter from the eastern octagonal cabinet at the Bernadotte Apartments at the Royal Palace!
Don't forget to set the clock to summer time tonight!
The floor clock in the cabinet is from the first part of the 1750s. The case was made at Jacob Liljedahl's lacquer factory and has a baroque shape while its decoration is rococo.
The watch from Stockholms Manufabrique is signed "Stockholm hos Gustaf Nylander" and bears the sentence "Pie et Prudenter" (With faith and knowledge)."

Kungahuset 🇸🇪 on Instagram: "🌼 Glad påsk från östra åttkantiga kabinettet i Bernadottevåningen på Kungl. Slottet! 🕑 Glöm inte att ställa fram klockan till sommartid i natt! Golvuret i kabinettet är från 1750-talets första del. Fodralet gjordes vid

3,093 likes, 32 comments - kungahuset on March 30, 2024: "🌼 Glad påsk från östra åttkantiga kabinettet i Bernadottevåningen på Kungl. Slottet! 🕑 Glöm inte att ställa fram klockan t..."

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