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Wilkie, Angus

Biedermeier. Second [revised] edition.

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lbh305307
New York & London, Abbeville Press, 2006. 4to. 30,5 x 25,5 cms. 216 pp. 197 illustrations in colour. Bibliography and index. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dustjacket. As new.

Contents: "Domestic Life and the Viennese Interior", "Biedermeier Design", "Centers of Production", "Furniture Categories", "Decorative Objects", "Painting". - - - "Current between 1815 and 1848, Biedermeier furniture, painting, textiles, and decorative arts have once again risen to the realm of high fashion, with their sunburst veneers and intricate inlays attracting the attention of twenty-first Century collectors, designers, and museum curators. Biedermeier furniture earns its timeless sophistication through its architectural simplicity and the use of light-colored fruitwoods offset by contrasting bands of ebony and maple inlay. Biedermeier serves as an unrivaled sourcebook for the furniture and décor of this period, and this second edition features a newly revised introduction as well as an updated conclusion and bibliography. Angus Wilkie traces the era's complex history, giving a broad cultural and social background to the work itself. Wilkie explains how and why this period of tranquility following the devastation of the Napoleonic Wars was a fertile time for the design and production of household furniture, while also providing an overview of the astonishing variety of furniture produced by local cabinetmakers from Germany to Scandinavia and Russia. Wilkie's pioneering research is accompanied by over 160 specially commissioned color photographs, as well as watercolors of Biedermeier interiors, sketches, original textile designs, and original drawings of furniture and draperies reproduced from the Imperial Archives in Vienna. With the aid of photographs of actual pieces and previously unpublished drawings, the regional designs are compared to one another, giving a rare view of the world of the nineteenth-century craftsman and of the design philosophy underlying the elegant aesthetics of the Biedermeier style. This wealth of illustration reveals that Biedermeier examples and the itself con be integrated into almost Any decorative style, from period to contemporary, With its eye-catching collection of beds ond birdcages, settees and spittoons, Ormoires ond étogéres, Bledermeier is an book for all who ore passionate nineteenth-century design".
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