Furnishing the garden cave in the Gunnebo orangery

Gunnebo Castle was built in 1782-1796 for the merchant John Hall to the designs of Gothenburg city architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg. It was one of Sweden's most lavish mansions with surrounding gardens and pavilions at the end of the 18th century, but the estate fell into disrepair after a bankruptcy in 1807. The last surrounding buildings disappeared in 1833, beginning a long period of decay. Carlberg's surviving drawings have enabled parts of Gunnebo to be recreated throughout the 20th century and into the present day. In 1996, the project "Gunnebo back to the 18th century", now more than two decades long, was launched and since then the wings, servants' quarters, greenhouses, kitchen gardens, trellis, balustrades and urns in the French garden and the castle's façade have been reconstructed.

The most ambitious reconstruction, the recreation of the Gunnebo Orangery, started in 2013 and is expected to be completed in 2020. The orangery was the main park pavilion, a building for both utility and pleasure. In the southern wing with two corner pavilions, exotic plants were overwintered. The western wing contained lavish parlors with an ornate portico facing the park and a garden grotto in the northern pavilion.

Preserved drawings show that the cave's brickwork and flat dome (completed in 2015) will be covered with stucco in the form of dripstone, rocailles and a mixture of minerals, fossils, shells, glass and reliefs. Gunnebo Palace and Gardens is now recreating the interior of the orangery's garden cave.