The point of departure for the exhibition is the actuality that Pest-Buda became the spiritual and economical center for furniture art in the 19th century. There were several centers for furniture art in Hungary in the 18th century, mostly ecclesiastic centers, in addition to Pozsony (now Bratislava) Sopron, and Debrecen. With the rapid development of Pest as a center for furniture art, various related industries began developing in town. Furniture art in Hungary, including its style, in the period between 1800 and 1840 was centered in Vienna, in terms of historic Hungary, it was the furniture art of Pest-Buda that was considered standard.

The exhibition is to review fashion and style development in terms of furniture, how the patterns from Vienna influenced forms and technique carpenters in Pest-Buda applied and how all this influenced furniture art in the country.

The base material is from the collection of the Kiscell Museum, a Biedermeier furniture collection. In addition, we also show documents and various objects in relation to the carpenter guild.

The furniture on display was borrowed from various significant collections, such as the Museum of Applied Arts, Hungarian National Museum, the Déri Museum in Debrecen, the Kazinczy Ferenc Museum in Sátoraljaújhely and the Móra Ferenc Museum.

Other than the furniture, we have documents and drawings from the first art school of Pest, as well as art schools in the country. Most of the material has never been shown before.

It is the first time an exhibition endeavours to show material from Historic (Kőszeg, Pozsony, Sopron, Győr, Nagyszombat, Kassa, Ungvár, Nagykároly, Szatmár, Arad, Temesvár, Kolozsvár, Eszék, Újvidék, Varasd, Pécs, Veszprém, Eger, Szeged, Debrecen) Hungary in a systematic manner.

We hope to be able to show a selection from the Museum für angewandte Kunst és a Wien Museum as well as documents related to carpenter guilds in Vienna, documents from the Academy of Arts discovered in Albertina, some of them on display for the first time.

A catalogue full of colour photos, in Hungarian and English is available on location to purchase.