Austrian Biedermeier Walnut Ebonized Bookcase

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This very fine bookcase is in excellent condition and has great color and style. The book case has four shelves and can work for books or as pictured hear as a display cabinet for ob...

Outstanding Biedermeier cabinet/ bookcase from the renowed Biedermeier era in Austria around 1830. Veneered in beautiful burr walnut and fine nut wood this slender antique cabinet ...

Biedermeier Bookcase in Walnut and Birdseye with large glass door. Interior shelves above a single drawer.

Elegant, unadorned Biedermeier Bookcase in Walnut Solid wood and veneer from Austria circa 1825. Solid walnut body with slanted edges. Ebonized cornice and skirting board. 3 glass wr...

The best word I can think of to describe our newest find is; Presence. This absolutely incredibly elegant Très grande bibliotheque from Nîmes, France, simply makes the room, with its undeniable presence. Whether it’s the mammoth scale of the bookcase, or the combination of the ebonized walnut and the indescribable painted interior colour (we’re still searching for a name), something just clicked and made our antique bookcase quite special. Finding a genuine antique French bookcase, that measures roughly twelve and a half feet in length, that was not assembled from a bunch of old wood bits sitting around a guy’s workshop, is a rare occurrence. In our over 30-years of importing from Europe, we might have had two or three that were genuine. This huge antique French bookcase was fabricated from French solid walnut and certainly dates from the 1800’s. Look carefully at the wavy hand-made glass and that pretty much tells the whole story, for we are unaware that anyone produces new glass this good. Generally, when you find a bookcase, or display cabinet of this stature, you’ll discover that its history was probably from a public institution, be it a school, library, or even a high-end department store, but generally they are deathly tired. Fortunately, that was not the case with this antique French bookcase. Our antique bibliotheque was discovered in the town of Nîmes, a city in the Occitanie region of southern France. Little history; Nîmes was an important part of the Roman Empire and the city is most famous for the Arena of Nîmes, a double-tiered circa-70 A.D. amphitheater still in use today. Also, the famous Pont du Gard...

Early 20th century ebonized neoclassic bookcase in carved and turned walnut hand lacquered and polished with wax Measures cm: H 126 x W 123 x D 45.