{"product_id":"biedermeier-9780789209054","title":"Biedermeier","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter many years of undeserved neglect  Biedermeier furniture  painting  textiles  and decorative arts are enjoying renewed popularity. The Biedermeier era (181548) was a period of tranquility following the devastation of the Napoleonic Wars and a fertile time for the design and production of household furniture and accessories. The furniture of the Biedermeier period is characterized by architectural simplicity and the use of light-colored fruitwoods offset by contrasting bands of ebony and maple inlay. It is this timeless sophistication that has once again brought Biedermeier to the attention of collectors and designers around the world.  Biedermeier  with its newly revised introduction  serves as an unrivaled sourcebook for the furniture and dcor of this period. Angus Wilkie traces the eras complex history  giving a broad cultural and social background to the work itself. Providing an overview of the astonishing variety of furniture produced by local cabinetmakers from Germany to Scandinavia  this text showcases candlesticks  secretaries  and spittoons crafted in rich fruitwoods and decorated with inlays and sunburst veneers. With the aid of photographs of actual pieces and previously unpublished drawings  the regional designs are compared to one another  giving a rare view of the world of the nineteenth-century craftsman and of the design philosophy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. Wilkies 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 its display of entire rooms as well as individual pieces  Biedermeier has garnered a wide audience among decorators  homeowners  collectors  dealers  and historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652007583797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789209055","price":132.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789209054.jpg?v=1781848568","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/biedermeier-9780789209054","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}