A rocking chair roundup wouldn’t be complete without a mention of the Michael Thonet bentwood, and this curly-cue style is just what you need for a home oozing with historical charm. The caned ...

Rocking chairs were moved out of the kitchen and ... in the $1,200 range; a bentwood Thonet sleigh rocker in the $800 range (watch out for reproductions); a Boston Hitchcock rocker with original ...

curve and recurve upon themselves to form the rockers and sides" is his take on Michael Thonet's bentwood rocking chair. Thonet is one of the book's featured profiles. Rybczynski explores not only ...

Says Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss: “Whenever I see a bentwood chair, I want to whistle a Strauss waltz.” Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a ...

Utter the words “rocking chair,” and minds jump to grandma ... with high spindled backs. Michael Thonet’s 1880 bentwood rocker had a bit more flourish, while a quarter of a century later ...

Swedish studio Front has put a new spin on the classic No. 14 bentwood chair by Gebrüder Thonet Vienna with its ... while Front previously created a rocking horse for the brand based on archive ...

Another popular chair often copied is the so-called Thonet rocker, made of an innovative bent and laminated wood veneer, developed in the 1830s by a German furniture maker named Michael Thonet.

Philipp Thonet explains how furniture manufacturer Thonet collaborated with flooring brand Bolon to create an updated version of its classic 209 bentwood chair in the next video in our Bolon at ...

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 ...

“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 ...