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Bentwood boxes are a traditional item made by the First Nations people of the North American west coast including the Haida, Gitxsan, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Sugpiaq, Unangax, Yup'ik, Inupiaq and Coast Salish. These boxes are generally made out of one piece of wood that is steamed and bent to form a box.
Thonet Vienna-Chair No. 14. 9 November 1999. Brigitte Schmutzler: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Michael Thonet und seine Stühle. Landesmuseum, Koblenz 1996, ISBN 3-925915-55-9; Reider, William. Antiques: Bentwood Furniture. Architectural Digest August 1996: 106–111. Thonet. American Craft December 1990: 42–45. Thonet. Gebrüder Thonet GmbH.
The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the "bistro chair", it was designed in the Austrian Empire [1] by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. [2] [3] It is made using bent wood (steam-bending), and the design required years to ...
The company's best known design is the No. 14 chair, the iconic chair of Parisian cafes which the designer Japer Morrison described as "refined to the point where there is no way to improve it." [3] Gebrüder Thonet merged with Mundus AG in 1921 to become the world's largest furniture manufacturer.
The chair's hidden base features a ... it’s available in cumin velvet or teddy brown/white—and the swivel base is elevated by a bentwood frame to make it look integrated into the design ...
601 Chair by Dieter Rams. 10 Downing Street Guard Chairs, two antique chairs used by guards in the early 19th century; 14 chair (No. 14 chair) is the archetypal bentwood side chair originally made by the Gebrüder Thonet chair company of Germany in the 19th century, and widely copied and popular today [1]
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