“You can dance on it”: the 1140 multi-functional table by Werner Aisslinger. Solid, yet light; understated, yet impressive: designed by Werner Aisslinger as a “community hub”, the Thonet table 1140…
The beauty of tubular steel in miniature: the S 12 wall hook. The S 12 wall hook was created for Thonet by Finnish designer Harri Koskinen. It’s a small piece which is as stylish as it is functional…
The lounge chair 119 can be seen as an extension of your 118 collection for Thonet. How did it come about and to what extent do the designs differ from one another? It was an intuitive decision to…
Interview with Eva Marguerre and Marcel Besau If you imagine a chair you would have liked to have as children, how would it have looked? And what would you have liked to use it for? To a child, a…
209 - The Favorite Chair of Architects Le Corbusier used the chair in many of his buildings: in the Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau in Paris, the Villa de la Rocca and in houses nos. 13 and 14/15 in the…
The bridge that the 118 chair builds between tradition and today arises from its direct familial relationship with the archetypical Thonet icon, the Coffee House Chair 214 (formerly no. 14), and by…
in an interview with Sebastian Herkner © arcade , march/april 2018 Sebastian, how did you end up cooperating with Thonet? I already knew Norbert Ruf (Art Director, Thonet) from an earlier project. So…
Chairs & Stools It all began with the bentwood chair. Today, however, a variety of chairs and stools are part of our product range. Whether a historically significant cantilever chair, a bentwood…
Today, we take the form and aesthetics of tubular steel furniture for granted. They represent legendary milestones in design history . 100 years ago , the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau . The…
Thonet’s new S 243 tubular steel chair is a versatile piece with clean lines. “The objective in developing this product was to create a pure, modest shape that would accurately reflect the…
