Sécrétaire Biedermeier Walnut Austro-Hungaric Empire XIX Century

Austro-Hungarian Empire Second Quarter 19th Century

Code :  ANMORI0181695

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Sécrétaire Biedermeier Walnut Austro-Hungaric Empire XIX Century

Austro-Hungarian Empire Second Quarter 19th Century

Code :  ANMORI0181695

not available

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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Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Main essence:

Cherry

Obtained from prunus cerasus , a plant of oriental origin, it is a hard wood with a light and delicate color, with a reddish vein. Due to its diffusion and availability it was used in Europe in popular furniture. In cabinet making, in the seventeenth century, it was widely used in France and England for inlay work. In Italy it was very successful in Lucca. It was also very popular in the United States for the manufacture, from the late 1600s, of commonly used furniture.
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Walnut

Walnut wood comes from the plant whose botanical name is juglans regia , probably originally from the East but very common in Europe. Light or dark brown in color, it is a hard wood with a beautiful grain, widely used in antique furniture. It was the main essence in Italy throughout the Renaissance and later had a good diffusion in Europe, especially in England, until the advent of mahogany. It was used for solid wood furniture and sometimes carvings and inlays, its only big limitation is that it suffers a lot from woodworm. In France it was widely used more than anything else in the provinces. In the second half of the eighteenth century its use decreased significantly because mahogany and other exotic woods were preferred.

Pine

The term pine wood indicates the essence from various species of conifers, especially Scots pine, maritime pine and pinea pine. Used since ancient times for the most common furniture, with the advent of the veneer technique, in the 1600s, it was widely used in the construction of the structure of even luxury furniture, which were then covered, decorated (in Venice) or gilded ( in England). It has a color that varies from white to yellow with reddish hues and can be both very soft and very hard.

Sessile 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:

Gilded Bronze

Cherry Slab

Walnut Slab

Burl Slab

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