In 1859, a French furniture maker named Michael Thonet introduced a marvelous new chair. The curvaceous No. 14 Chair was made from six pieces of wood, bent into unimaginable shapes, thanks to an ...

great grandfather Michael Thonet in 1819, first produced the 209 chair at the turn of the 20th century. The bentwood chair was a favourite of Le Corbusier, who used it in many of his buildings.

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After 25 years experimenting with bending steamed wood and producing innovative "bentwood" furniture, Michael Thonet and his sons created the No. 14 as the first mass-produced seating furniture on ...

“In 1964, Gillis Lundgren designed a bentwood chair for IKEA that could barely conceal its similarity to the Thonet model No. 18,” Hackenschmidt, who organized the exhibition and co-authored ...

Made from Thonet's trademark bentwood ... introduced in 1859 after cabinetmaker Michael Thonet set out to create the first affordable mass-manufactured chair. He used a wood-bending technique ...

“Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture From the Collection of Fern ... nature of the technique so successfully exploited by Michael Thonet,” said James N. Wood, director and president of ...

Thonet has made a name by continuing the tradition of the bentwood chair, by taking the 19th century classic ... the same European factory set up in 1880 by expert German craftsman Michael Thonet.

Furniture maker Michael Thonet first introduced the bentwood 214 chair in Vienna in 1859, and it has remained in production ever since, making it the chair with the longest production run in history.