Included in the show is Michael Thonet and Peter Hubert Desvignes, Chair for the Liechtenstein City Palace (1843-1847), left, along with Verner Panton, S Chair (1956), center, and Stefan Diez ...

Michael Thonet began a carpentry and joinery shop in 1819. Since no one could pronounce his name without getting their tongue stuck in their front teeth, success came slowly. In 1830, he commenced … ...

Thrifting Is My Love Language - And These Are the 5 Vintage Chairs You Can Still Get a Deal On. Story by Heather Bien • 3w. V intage chairs used to be a dime a dozen. ... Bentwood Chairs ...

“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 ...

Because the process of making bentwood furniture requires that rods of wood be bent along the grain, it presented the perfect title for a new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Agai… ...

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 ...

My favorite neighborhood oyster bar has vintage Thonet café chairs; ... Ton No. 150 Bentwood Chair. $409 $409 Buy at Design Public Buy. $456 at B2H Buy. Photo: John P Johnson/HBO.

Design Miami/Basel 2016: Italian design collective Nucleo has continued to cast furniture in resin, this time including a classic bentwood Thonet chair among three new pieces for Cologne's Ammann ...

Beech was the best wood for holding its shape, and Thonet was able to put into production a sturdy chair whose curved back and rear legs were formed out of a single rod of wood, calling it the No ...

Design Miami/Basel 2016: Italian design collective Nucleo has continued to cast furniture in resin, this time including a classic bentwood Thonet chair among three new pieces for Cologne's Ammann ...