Exactly 3 years ago I started this blog with a Cut Out Chair.
I posted about two more famous chairs the same day:
Thonet No 18 Chair, still a classic and
Thonet No 14 Chair, a million seller.
I’d not believed I could bring you so much stuff about (designers of) seating furniture on beforehand. But I did. Thank you all readers and commenters and e-mailers and linkers to Chair Blog! A special thank you to new contributor Polley. You all keep me inspired. Hope to see you the next three years!
I’ve taken the opportunity to decrease the number of posts to 5 In order to speed up loading time.
In addition you won’t find archives anymore in the sidebar. There is now a separate and proper Archives Page
Found this original Thonet no.25 at another specialist, now one who repairs cane parts of thonets and other cane backed or seated chairs and boat seatings: Suzandy based in the UK.
French designer Claudio Colucci‘s Mutant Attack chair playfully remixed original Thonet chairs, but this time the chair become shorter and fatter. Designed for Clear Gallery Tokyo, the Mutant Chair present a sense of humor which most chair lack. The chair is made of recycled materials and available in different variation
Via Design Year Book.
Thonet Mundus sales catalog from Vienna, 1937
Inspecting old posts here on the blog results in many new posts. Here is the Thonet Chair Café Daum. Still available at Thonet Australia
Designer: Thonet
Finishes Walnut and Dark Oak
Dimensions in mm H 890, D 550, W 420 Seat H 460
Thonet’s first independent commission in 1849, resulted in this design for the Café Daum in Vienna. Today it is
recognised as the quintessential society cafe chair. European beech frame, beech ply seat. Seat pad an option.
That’s nice. Isn’t it?
However, whenever you are looking for a Thonet chair, you shouldn’t forget to check the sites of the connoisseurs. I checked the German language site of Swiss Thonet specialist Dieter Staedeli. Currently he has this photo of a Thonet no 4:
and has following observation:
The chair Thonet designed for Café Daum which became became the Thonet no 4 later didn’t have additional leg stabilization
Now I’m a bit confused: I see two differences: The leg stabilisation and the form of the seat. Which in the Staedeli photo is made of two round bentwood parts. Also it misses the additional seat-back stabilisator….
Currently this Armchair designed by Adolf Loos for Café Capua and manufactured by Thonet is for sale at a Dorotheum auction in Vienna, scheduled for March 15. Estimate € 1.200,- to € 1.500,-
Inspired by the EU directive to phase out low efficiency light bulbs by 2012, In Praise of Shadows explores the designer’s response to lighting, shadow and efficiency. Drawing together works by designers from across the EU, this project brings humour and beauty to the challenge of energy and light efficiency, and explores the potential of alternative energy sources.This display is commissioned by the European Union National Institute for Culture (EUNIC) and curated by Jane Withers and includes work by Drift, Pieke Bergmans and also Loop.pH, with films by French eco activists Clan du Neon.
Bentwood Rocking Chair after a design by Thonet.
Estimate * £800 – £1,200 ($1,216 – $1,824)
Sale 5903, christie’s interiors 19 May 2009
London, South Kensington
At Christie’s
Designer: Michael Thonet
c. 1870
Description: Rocking chair with a dark wooden frame, and cane seat and back.
History: This is a replica of the 1870 design. The rocking chair was relatively unheard of in Europe until Thonet designed this piece.
Museum Collections: (University of Dundee)
