Sécrétaire Biedermeier Walnut Austro-Hungaric Empire XIX Century - Austro-Hungarian Empire Second Quarter 19th Century
Features
Austro-Hungarian Empire Second Quarter 19th Century
Style: Biedermeier (1815-1848)
Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900
Origin: Austro-Hungaric Empire
Main essence: Cherry , Walnut , Pine , Sessile Oak
Material: Gilded Bronze , Cherry Slab , Walnut Slab , Burl Slab
Description
Biedermeier secréteire in walnut partially veneered in briar, Austro-Hungarian Empire second quarter of the 19th century. Architectural structure with tympanum cymatium with indentations, column uprights in the round with capitals in chiseled gilded bronze, front with flap door concealing walnut and cherry veneered cabinet and 3 drawers; feet replaced. Pine and oak drawer interiors.
Product Condition:
Product which due to age and wear requires restoration and re-polishing. We try to present the real state of the furniture as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 161,5
Width: 111
Depth: 60
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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Cherry
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