Everything You Need to Know About Biedermeier Style

A Biedermeier interior painted by Eduard Gaertner. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) More than a century before the Eameses created their simple, honest furniture designed to appeal to the everyman, a style of furnishings emerged in Germany, one whose simplicity, visual lightness, and playful geometries were a herald of things to come. Biedermeier is notable for being the first decorative movement that was created by and for the middle class, and even today, after two centuries, these pieces sti...