Villa Lusthusporten

Villa Lusthusporten, also known as Villa Wicanderska, Villa Brinckska, and Villa Liljevalchska, is a 19th-century merchant's villa situated on Djurgårdsvägen, on the northern edge of Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. The site takes its name from a 17th-century summer house (lusthus) that once stood nearby, giving the adjacent royal hunting gate its name. An inn on the site burned down in 1869, and in 1873 the land was leased by a trader named Brink, who commissioned architects Axel and Hjalmar Kumlien to construct a residence in the Italianate style. In 1898 the property was acquired by cork magnate Hjalmar Wicander, who engaged architect Carl Möller to remodel it in a Baroque Revival style with rich Art Nouveau decoration. During the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897 the villa briefly served as a press office and police station. It was donated to the Nordiska Museet Foundation in 1940 and is classified as a protected national monument.