When the Hallwyl Palace was completed in 1898, the house was equipped with the technical novelties of its time – among other things, it was one of the first significant private residences in Stockholm to be equipped with electricity from the start. Now all the technical innovations that came around the turn of the 1900s are collected in the new book The Palace of Technology: Modernity, Comfort, and Technical Innovations in the Hallwyl House.
Our research director Anders Houltz's contribution in the book depicts the significance of electricity in the palace against the background of Stockholm's electrification around the turn of the 1900s.
The book also features professor Anders Ekström, professor emeritus Jonas Frykman, PhD Karin Carlsson, curators Samuel Norrby and Anders Lindeberg Lindvet, as well as technical consultant Göran Stålbom. The contributing authors highlight in their texts the family's interest in technical innovations and the dream of a comfortable life – and what it meant to be modern at the turn of the 1900s.
