# Biedermeier (ビーダーマイヤー) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.523 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/biedermeier
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Biedermeier, a style from Furniture and Interiors, 1820s–1850s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: finishing domestic furniture or fittings with plain wood surfaces and outline alone, or setting the subjects and tone of illustration or photography about middle class life. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Furniture whose outline stays simple, with no carving or inlay laid over it
- Plain figured wood facing forward, standing in for ornament
- Subjects drawn from people close at hand and from nature, treated with feeling
- Modest sizes made for a citizen's room rather than a court hall

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Symmetrical, with one subject at the centre, and spacing that keeps the density of a lived-in room
- Type and lettering: Keep lettering quiet, using a plain roman at small size and never a heavy display face
- Material and surface: Pale figured wood with an even sheen, small metal fittings, and a palette held to about three colours
- Colour: #B8C3BB carries the ground, #C9A26D is the colour the style is remembered by, #1F1A15 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: calm, trust, intimacy

## What goes wrong

Stripping every last ornament in the name of simplicity leaves work indistinguishable from later functionalist furniture and drains out the domestic warmth that defined the style.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/biedermeier/design.md