biedermeier








adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to a style of furnishings common in German-speaking areas in the early to middle 19th century, generally existing as a simplification of the French Directoire and Empire styles, usually executed in fruitwood with much use of matched veneers, and often displaying architectural motifs.

adjective

  1. of or relating to a decorative and furnishing style in mid-19th-century Germany, characterized by solidity and conventionality
  2. boringly conventional in outlook; bourgeois

1854, from German, from Gottlieb Biedermeier, name of a fictitious writer of stodgy poems (invented by Ludwig Eichrodt as a satire on bourgeois taste); the name generally applied to styles prevalent in Germany 1815-48; also “conventional, bourgeois.”

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