Garden chairs that match the classic S 43 by Mart Stam in their construction and design: clear and reserved in their form, with ideal sitting comfort and high quality with respect to materials and…
The Thonet design stands for comfortable, timeless and modern furniture. The development focuses on the durability of the products. Therefore, the intelligent selection of materials and efficient use…
Steam was the key driver of early industrialisation. Steam locomotives transported goods and people; steam engines set looms, boats and mills in motion. And thanks to carpenter and inventor Michael…
Thonet, the celebrated furniture company, is gifting three contemporary Thonet designs by German designers Sebastian Herkner and Stefan Diez and Belgian designer James Van Vossel, to the Stedelijk…
214 - It is a success story with many facets The starting point was a new technique – the bending of solid wood – that Michael Thonet perfected during the 1850s, enabling mass production. Added were…
Marcel Breuer and Thonet In 1925, Marcel Breuer designed metal furniture for various uses at the Bauhaus. In this context, the stool B 9 was created for the cafeteria; later on, it was also used as a…
This project led to a book that illustrates the graphic design of the Thonet brand for the first time and shows the development of the graphic of this brand in connection with cultural and political…
This time in Vienna, the city that was of great significance in the company’s success story: in 1842, the German cabinetmaker Michael Thonet moved from Boppard/Rhine to Vienna, where he was able to…
More than 865,000 bentwood chairs per year were produced in today's Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia. Michael Thonet died in Vienna in 1871; his sons then took over the company. During the 1930s,…
However, the idea that Thonet would make such products is actually not such an odd one after all, as early winter sports equipment, just like the famous 214 coffee house chair (previously the No. 14),…
