Biedermeier Dining Chairs — The Most Comfortable Seat in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Why Collectors Still Want Them
Before 1815, the dining chair was not designed for the person sitting in it. It was designed for the room. Comfort was beside the point. Then everything changed. When Comfort Became Radical — The World That Created the Biedermeier Dining Chair The Congress of Vienna in 1815 ended the Napoleonic Wars and sent the aristocracy […]