Autro-Hungarian Biedermeier Desk Austria 19th Century
Features
Style: Biedermeier (1815-1848)
Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900
Origin: Austria
Main essence: Maple , Mahogany
Material: Mahogany Feather Banded Veneer
Description
Austian-Hungarian production Biedermeier desk supported by architectual pillars that stand on flat surfaces that are connected to each other by a central crossbeam. It has two pair of drawers at the sides an a central one; the writing surface has a removable leather insert. Mahogany feather banded veneered with marple threads and inlays, marple interiors.
Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use. Any damage or loss is displayed as completely as possible in the pictures. Product with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lawful Origin.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 80,5
Width: 122
Depth: 65,5
Additional Information
Style: Biedermeier (1815-1848)
The Biedermeier style is a style that characterizes German and Austrian furniture between approximately 1815 (Congress of Vienna) and 1848 (beginning of the revolutionary movements).Its main features are essentiality and functionality, and the home destination.
Biedermeier first took on a derogatory connotation: the word derives from "Bieder", or "simpleton" and from "Meir", one of the most common German surnames at the time and was the name of a "simpleton" character in a comedy of Ludwig Eichrodt.
This term meant the conservative petty bourgeois, concerned only with his own family reality.
Even if in a derogatory way, the term represents exactly the new socio-political situation in which the bourgeois is forced or resigned to renounce the yearnings for democracy and freedom.
The center of life therefore becomes the home, no longer characterized by unbridled luxury but comfortable and practical.
Consequently, Biedermeier furniture are functional, comfortable and easily achievable products.
The style is an evolution of the Empire style towards greater simplification, without ornamental and antique elements, lighter, linear and curved shapes, lighter colors.
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