In their new book, "The World of Biedermeier" (Thames & Hudson), authors Linda Chase and Karl Kemp present their ideas about a well-regarded aesthetic movement based on classicism which blossomed in ...

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 ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Antique dealer Rupert Cavendish stumbled upon Biedermeier furniture by accident when his business partner bought the wrong lot number at an auction. But that mistaken purchase ...

The Biedermeier craftsmen brought the same enchanting experimentalspirit to tables and sofas. A table base might be composed of aforest of columns, or of a couple of grandly curved planes, while asofa ...

How a mid-19th-century German term became a catchall for a kind of governance that many Americans would welcome about now. Imagine if national politics were orderly and sedate, perhaps even boring.

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 ...

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 ...

Biedermeier furniture, that golden blend of burled wood and inlays on simple shapes, sometimes ebonized or accented with fine veneering, was politically correct in its day–after the Council of Vienna ...