Gothenburg’s city architect, Carl Wilhelm Carlberg, designed Gunnebo Castle, its interiors and furnishings, as well as the surrounding buildings and large parts of the garden complex, between 1782 and 1784, on behalf of the merchant John Hall. Construction was not completed until 1796, when the Hall family was able to move into their lavish summer retreat, which contemporaries called the most magnificent little wooden castle in the kingdom. Just over 200 of Carlberg’s drawings of Gunnebo have been preserved and are owned by the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. The drawings are an invaluable source of knowledge about Gunnebo’s original appearance, and based on them, a series of reconstructions have taken place from 1950 onward. Gunnebo Castle was stripped of its original furnishings in 1828, but a significant amount of original furniture has been reacquired through purchases and donations. With contributions from the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations, a fund was established in 2005 to finance the purchase of original furniture or relevant objects connected to Gunnebo, the Hall family, or architect Carlberg. In the summer of 2011, five meticulously restored chairs that once stood in Gunnebo’s dining room were purchased. Four other original chairs of the same model were already in the collection. Gunnebo now wishes to restore these nine chairs and reupholster them in black tufted fabric, in accordance with the information provided by Christina Hall in preserved inventory lists.