Biedermeier furniture: collectors attracted to the modernity and fine craftsmanship of the best Biedermeier pieces will find that prices are temptingly modest.(COLLECTORS' FOCUS)

Apollo | March 1, 2008| | Copyright

Between 1815 and 1848 German-speaking Europe developed a new style of living. Self-consciously middle class, it deliberately distanced itself from the affectations of court life, in favour of a new focus on simplicity. Named Biedermeier after a fictional petit-bourgeois German invented by the writer Ludwig Eichrodt, this trend was mirrored in an unostentatious, functional approach to decoration and furniture design.

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'With its clear-cut, straight-line structures, Biedermeier furniture has a conception of form of a kind that is familiar ...

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