Gustav III, creator of this style, became king of Sweden in 1771. Like all the nobles of the time, he had been educated in the ideals of the Enlightenment and had also been taught through the experience of travel. He had stayed for long periods of time in various European courts but, surely, there were two countries that he felt most similar in taste: France and Italy. Having ascended the throne, he decides to embellish his palaces inspired by the style of these two countries. In particular, its style of furniture refers to the forms of the Louis XVI style, which reigned at that time in France. However, not having the great wealth of Louis XVI, Gustavo makes simplicity his strong point, the key to the beauty of his style, which is so deprived of the excesses and gold that instead distinguished the French style. The elegant and refined shapes of Louis XVI are then dressed in the soft colors that characterize the Swedish landscape, creating continuity between the outside and the inside. Everything becomes a hymn to light, a rare resource in northern countries, emphasized by chandeliers with crystal drops, large mirrors, large windows and bleached floors. The result is an essential, rigorous, almost monastic furniture, but deeply intimate and welcoming, in perfect harmony with the surrounding environment, to which the Swedish people are strongly attached.