September 2009

Classics for Kids: the special edition of the Thonet classics 214 and S 43 for kids will be available in new colours for Christmas

Great classics for little people: the Thonet company, known throughout the world for their classic bentwood and tubular steel furniture, will be producing two icons of furniture design in a special edition for children. For this year’s Christmas season, the company will launch a children’s version in light pastel colours of both the famous coffee house chair 214 and the tubular steel cantilever chair S 43.

Grandparents and parents can give their little loved ones a very special present this Christmas with the products from the new Classics for Kids series: a furniture classic that is part of cultural history and will gain increasing value over time. The children’s version of the famous coffee house chair No. 14 (today called the 214), is a smaller version of the original coffee house chair, developed in 1860 by one of the sons of company founder Michael Thonet, and will be produced under the label 14KR and feature the typical wickerwork seat. Also available as 14 KM is a version with a wooden seat in light blue, yellow, pink or white. There will also be a new children’s version of the 1931 cantilever chair by Mart Stam, which was developed during the Bauhaus period. Like the bentwood chair 14 KM, the children’s chair S 43 K made of bent tubular steel will be available in pastel colours, applied as a texture finish.