Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 255
y the Em-pire school was sodistorted by theeffort to popularize itthat it soon becameknown as the Bieder-meier, a term of re-proach. Biedermeier wasa fictitious characterinvented for thepages of FHcgendeBlatter, a g o o d-natured bourgeoiswith no aesthetic per-ception. Germany,after the… … Above, LArt Nouveau chair; below, modern German-Empireor Biedermeier chairs. Empire decoration,and substituted mere-ly pretty forms, pret-ty details, unmeaningand weak. Not onlywas the studiouswork of Fontaine,Percier, David andthe brothers Adampruned by the Bied-ermeier gardener, buta lot of petty…
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