A caryatid is a female-shaped pillar. The term comes from the Greek language roughly meaning “girl from the city of Karyai”. Caryatids have been around since ancient times and the most famous ones are found on Acropolis in Athens. The caryatids on the garage at Söderlångvik originally come from Svenska Teatern in Helsinki. The theatre building by Nicolas Benois (1813–1898) built in 1866 quickly grew too small for the visitors. In 1935, with Amos Andersson as the largest financier, it was possible to renew the building according to drawings by Eero Saarinen and Jarl Ekelund. The caryatids no longer fitted the new functionalistic façade, but Anderson wanted to save them. So since then, the caryatids with predecessors in ancient Greece have embellished the southern façade of his garage.