Philipp Thonet explains how furniture manufacturer Thonet collaborated with flooring brand Bolon to create an updated version of its classic 209 bentwood chair in the next video in our Bolon at Heart ...

The Thonet Chair Company must have been astonishing to see at the 1851 World’s Fair. In presenting simple seats made of gracefully curved, steam-bent wood, they bucked centuries of convention, ...

Dezeen Showroom: London-based studio Industrial Facility has reimagined Thonet's seminal 214 bentwood chair from 1859 using modern material technology, with an ergonomic moulded plywood seat and a ...

For the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus, Thonet and Hamburg-based design studio, Besau Marguerre have teamed up to bring an element of contemporary luxury to the S 533 F chair designed by Mies van der ...

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 ...

Designers want to do chairs the way writers want to do novels. There's always a lonely drawing or an unread manuscript lurking somewhere. But why bother? The greatest chair ever designed already ...

I write in the hope that you will be able to shed some light on three pieces of furniture I acquired several years ago. The settee still has what appears to be the original upholstery. The upholstery ...