The World of Biedermeier

by Linda Chase, Karl Kemp, Lois Lammerhuber

Biedermeier furniture and interior design are recognized today as the first great flowering of haute bourgeois taste in interior design. Biedermeier is a style with great range, from austere to sumptuous, but it is never ostentatious in its celebration of comfort, domestic intimacy, and practicality. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, these bourgeois ideals in design were pursued by a wide range of society from the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500510555
• ISBN13: 9780500510551
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 6.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.9" x 12.9"