Dritter Biedermeier
The Intention
A style for a sustainable change
In a time shaped by crises, acceleration, and digital overwhelm, the desire for orientation grows — and with it, the longing for spaces of calm, clarity, and meaning. The Third Biedermeier is a response to that longing: not as retreat from the world, but as a conscious step inward. A form of healthy escapism that does not deny reality, but offers resilience through beauty, thoughtfulness, and balance.
We believe that sustainability begins not with new materials, but with a new mindset. With the willingness to seek permanence over novelty, and to value the everyday as a site of culture. The Third Biedermeier is not about consuming less — it is about needing less because things matter more.
It is not a style.
It is a way of seeing.
Manifesto of the Third Biedermeier
A Draft for the Essential
1. We believe in proportion.
Not everything that is possible must be done. We design with restraint – in scale, material, and intention.
2. We seek what endures.
Design is not a disposable good. What we create should age – with dignity, with character, with traces of life.
3. We shape with conviction.
Form is never neutral. Every object, every space, every decision expresses an inner order.
4. We value the private sphere.
In a world where everything becomes public, we need places of retreat. Spaces that offer protection without isolation.
5. We honour craftsmanship.
The knowledge of the hands is part of the idea. Quality arises through care – not through speed.
6. We cultivate quiet.
Not everything must be loud to be meaningful. The Third Biedermeier favours the subtle, the thoughtful, the restrained.
7. We think from the centre.
We believe in the strength of the bourgeois spirit – not in terms of ownership, but of responsibility, education, and balance.
8. We translate, not imitate.
The Third Biedermeier is no historical replica. It reinterprets its sources – for today, with an eye to tomorrow.
9. We create spaces, not scenery.
Living culture is not a stage set, but a way of life. Beauty arises where people truly are.
10. We believe in the essential.
Not as renunciation, but as liberation. Not as doctrine, but as invitation.
