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 ...

Dezeen Showroom: London-based studio Industrial Facility has reimagined Thonet's seminal 214 bentwood chair from 1859 using modern material technology, with an ergonomic moulded plywood seat and a ...

“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, the N ... in the form of an eight-person sofa aimed at office workers. Other furniture highlights from Salone included seating based on torture devices ...

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.

The first bentwood chairs were created in Austria by Michael Thonet who became preoccupied by the idea of bending wood to make a simple chair. Having experimented with laminated wood and glue ...

What does Thonet mean to you? Thonet is a resounding name in design history dating back to the Biedermeier movement. They went from bentwood to steel tube chair creations and engaged Bauhaus ...