Neuigkeiten aus dem Hofmobiliendepot:
Folded Beauty
Autumn Exhibition
8.9.2010 - 23.1.2011
Press Release June 2010
General Press information
Imperial Furniture Collection
Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
press information
White and gold chair around 1850/60
Bedroom of Empress Elisabeth in Gödöllö
Emperor Franz Joseph Hall
In the course of the revolution in 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I abdicated in favour of his nephew Franz Joseph.
As Austrian Emperor, the young monarch was to reside in the Reichskanzleitrakt of the Hofburg Palace, which had lost its administrative function with the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. “Redecorations in the Blondel style” were started.
When Emperor Franz Joseph married Elisabeth, Princess of Bavaria, in 1845, the rooms of the Amalienburg win adjacent to the Reichskanzleitrakt were refurnished for the young empress. The original rococo furniture was preserved and completed in Blondel’s style.
After 1854, Emperor Franz Joseph moved into the apartment of his predecessor in the Hietzinger Trakt of Schönbrunn Palace. In 1854, an apartment adjacent to his rooms was furnished in the Blondel style for Elisabeth.
The apartment of the young couple in Blauer Hof of Laxenburg Palace, another place where the Imperial family used to sojourn, was also redecorated in the 1850s.
Besides the apartments regularly used by the Imperial couple, they also had rooms at the Salzburg residence and at the Hofburg in Innsbuck. Both apartments were newly decorated for them in the Blondel style.
The private apartments of the Imperial family were furnished in a standard way. Wherever the emphasis was on ceremonial functions, the Imperial style of living was associated with white-gold Neo-Rococo furniture, usually upholstered with red silk damask.
