Biedermeier style
- noun
- /ˈbiːdərˌmaɪər staɪl/
- Specialized
:
estilo Biedermeier
- The living room was decorated in the Biedermeier style, featuring elegant yet simple furniture.
Examples
-
Her collection of antiques included several chairs crafted in the Biedermeier style from early 19th-century Austria.
-
Museum visitors admired the paintings and furnishings typical of the Biedermeier style.
-
The Biedermeier style is characterized by simplicity and functionality.
-
Many people appreciate the Biedermeier style for its elegant designs.
-
Museum visitors admired the paintings and furnishings typical of the Biedermeier style.
-
Her collection of antiques included several chairs crafted in the Biedermeier style from early 19th-century Austria.
-
The living room was decorated in the Biedermeier style, featuring elegant yet simple furniture.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'Biedermeier' (a named historical design movement) + 'style' (a manner or aesthetic), so someone who knows the constituent meanings can infer it refers to the style associated with Biedermeier. The noun + style pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic way to label a design/movement, making the expression immediately comprehensible to learners who know both words.
Etymology
Biedermeier style comes from a made-up character, 'Gottlieb Biedermeier', that writers used in the 1800s to make fun of ordinary middle-class people in Austria and Germany. Those people wanted neat, simple, comfortable furniture for their homes, so the name Biedermeier style came to mean the plain, elegant home design popular in the 1800s.
