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Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century

Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
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  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
  • Vintage Biedermeier Walnut Harrods Occasional Side Table Late 20th Century | Ref. no. A3256d | Regent Antiques
Ref: A3256d
Price: £850.00
This is a stylish vintage Biedermeier walnut and ebonised occasional table retailed by Harrods, circa 1980 in date.   The...

This is a stylish vintage Biedermeier walnut and ebonised occasional table retailed by Harrods, circa 1980 in date.
 
The rectangular table  features beautiful walnut throughout with ebonised banding and ormolu mounted Doric column legs united by a shaped undertier. it is raised on short triangular feet.
 
 
The grain of the wood is truly breathtaking and the quality and attention to detail on display throughout this large and sturdy piece are second to none.
 
 
Condition:
 
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.



Dimensions in cm:

Height 61 x Width 64 x Depth 51

Dimensions in inches:

Height 2 foot x Width 2 feet, 1 inch x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches

Our reference: A3256d

Please feel free to email or call us (+44 20 8809 9605) to arrange a viewing in our North London warehouse.

Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25. The business was located south of the River Thames in Southwark. The premises were located at 228 Borough High Street.

He ran this business, variously listed as a draper, mercer and a haberdasher, certainly until 1831. During 1825 the business was listed as 'Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail', but this partnership was dissolved at the end of that year. His first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod & Co.Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E.C.1., in 1832. In 1834 in London's East End, he established a wholesale grocery in Stepney, at 4, Cable Street, with a special interest in tea.

In 1849, to escape the vice of the inner city and to capitalise on trade to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in nearby Hyde Park, Harrod took over a small shop in the district of Brompton, on the site of the current store. Beginning in a single room employing two assistants and a messenger boy, Harrod's son Charles Digby Harrod built the business into a thriving retail operation selling medicines, perfumes, stationery, fruit and vegetables. Harrods rapidly expanded, acquired the adjoining buildings, and employed one hundred people by 1880.

However, the store's booming fortunes were reversed in early December 1883, when it burnt to the ground. Remarkably, in view of this calamity, Charles Harrod fulfilled all of his commitments to his customers to make Christmas deliveries that year—and made a record profit in the process. In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde,Lillie LangtryEllen TerryCharlie ChaplinNoël CowardGertrude LawrenceLaurence Olivier and Vivien LeighSigmund FreudA. A. Milne, and many members of the British Royal Family

On Wednesday, 16 November 1898, Harrods debuted England's first "moving staircase" (escalator) in their Brompton Road stores; the device was actually a woven leather conveyor belt-like unit with a wood and "silver plate-glass" balustrade. Nervous customers were offered brandy at the top to revive them after their 'ordeal'. The department store was purchased by the Fayed brothers in 1985.
In 2010 Harrods was sold to Qutar Holdings. 

Harrods was the holder of royal warrants from 1910 till 2000 from the following:

* Queen Elizabeth II (Provisions and Household Goods)
* The Duke of Edinburgh (Outfitters)
* The Prince of Wales (Outfitters and Saddlers)
* The late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (China and Glass)

The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe.

The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space, while the third largest, Allders of Croydon had 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of retail space.

By comparison Europe's second-largest department store the KaDeWe in Berlin has a retail space of 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2).

 


Biedermeier period,
refers to an era in Central Europe during which arts appealed to common sensibilities in the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions.

Although the term itself is a historical reference, it is predominantly used to denote the artistic styles that flourished in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design.

Biedermeier was an influential style of furniture design from Germany during the years 1815–1848, based on utilitarian principles. The period extended into Austria and Scandinavia.

Throughout the period, emphasis was kept upon clean lines and minimal ornamentation. As the period progressed, however, the style moved from the early rebellion against Romantic-era fussiness to increasingly ornate commissions by a rising middle class, eager to show their newfound wealth.

The idea of clean lines and utilitarian postures would resurface in the 20th century, continuing into the present day. The Biedermeier style was a simplified interpretation of the influential French Empire Style of Napoleon I, which introduced the romance of ancient Roman Empire styles, adapting these to modern early 19th century households. Biedermeier furniture used locally available materials such as cherry, ash and oak woods rather than the expensive timbers such as fully imported mahogany. 

Biedermeier furniture and lifestyle was a focus on exhibitions at the Vienna applied arts museum in 1896. The many visitors to this exhibition were so influenced by this fantasy style and its elegance that a new resurgence or revival period became popular amongst European cabinetmakers.

This revival period lasted up until the Art Deco style was taken up. Biedermeier also influenced the various Bauhaus styles through their truth in material philosophy.

Dimensions in cm:

Height 61 x Width 64 x Depth 51

Dimensions in inches:

Height 2 foot x Width 2 feet, 1 inch x Depth 1 foot, 8 inches

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