Biedermeier Secrétaire Walnut Bois de Violette Oak Austria XIX Century

Code :  ANMORI0132224

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Biedermeier Secrétaire Walnut Bois de Violette Oak Austria XIX Century

Code :  ANMORI0132224

not available

Biedermeier Secrétaire Walnut Bois de Violette Oak Austria XIX Century

Features

Style:  Biedermeier (1815-1848)

Age:  19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Origin:  Austria

Main essence:  Silver Fir Oak

Material:  Walnut Burl Veneer , Shear plate

Description

Biedermeier secrétaire, carved molding with crest and leaf motifs, front veneered in walnut and walnut burl with 4 drawers and flap door concealing 8-castle drawes plus central compartment with bois de violette reserves and bois de rose frames. Outlets and handles in wood and sheet metal, spinning top feet. Interior in oak and fir.

Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and resumption of polishing.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 181
Width: 107
Depth: 56

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.
Find out more about the Biedermeier style with our insights:
Biedermeier, the comfortable and practical style
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FineArt: group eight Biedermeier applique, Vienna, 1820-1830
FineArt: Biedermeier Reifenluster, Vienna, c. 1820-1830 - Viennese chandelier

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Main essence:

Silver Fir

Soft coniferous wood, used for rustic furniture or to build the chest, that is the structure, of furniture then veneered in more precious woods. It has been used since ancient times, its most valuable use is, in the Spruce variant, in the inlays of French antique furniture of the '700 . The spruce, more typical of northern Europe, in Italy grows mainly in the Eastern Alps at altitudes above 1300 m. The noblest use of this essence was in the construction of violins, guitars and cellos: Stradivari himself produced his famous violins with this wood.

Oak

Under the name of oak or oak various types of woods derived from plants of the genus quercus are grouped. They are always resistant, hard and compact woods. Oak is lighter than oak, both are used for more rustic furniture or for the interiors of French and English antique furniture. In other processes it was gradually replaced by the advent of exotic woods considered more valuable since the 18th century.

Material:

Walnut Burl Veneer

Shear plate

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