Since seeing Paola Saracino Fendi’s Upper East Side pad, fabulously decorated by British firm Campbell-Rey, I can’t stop thinking about her dining chairs. A collection of eight mismatched Biedermeier ...
To many of us, Biedermeier means handsome, bourgeois furniture — wooden pieces born of clean lines, beautiful veneers and minimal fuss. But the Biedermeier style, which flourished in Europe between ...
The clean lines and strong accents of a Biedermeier secretary have undeniable appeal.
If chairs and chests and tables could embody the secret yearnings of a dangerous time, they would be Biedermeier. The venerated veneered furnishings, by turns playful and austere, were crafted in ...
The courtyard entrance of David Gosselin's Montrose home wraps guests in a slow, Southern embrace. High walls offer privacy while gas lanterns cast a long, languid look around. Miscellaneous statuary ...
ONE OF bigger exhibitions, if not the biggest this year at the Slovak National Gallery, is a collection of paintings, furniture, jewellery and other artefacts originating from within Slovak territory ...
If we apply Mark Twain’s observation that “history does not repeat itself but it often rhymes,” then at this moment in time we may well be inhabiting the American Biedermeier. The data are coming in.
Director of the Leopold Museum, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, stands in front of the painting "Gray Day", 1921, by the painter George Grosz in the exhibition "Splendor and Misery - New Objectivity in Germany ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The article is concerned with the use of the term 'Biedermeier' in contemporary Czech literary history. After the work of Vojtěch Jirát and ...
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