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214 Bentwood chair - coffee house chair Thonet
Dimensions in cm:
W 43
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D 52
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H 84
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Icon: 214 coffee house chair by Thonet
The most successful industrial product in the world - the famous coffee house chair by Thonet is an icon and marks the beginning of modern furniture design. It is based on the technique of bending solid wood, which Michael Thonet tested and perfected at the end of the 1850s. This made it possible to mass produce the chair.
Its clear, minimalist aesthetic has made this classic chair popular for over 150 years and makes it the perfect chair for a wide variety of settings. It is produced in Frankenberg and is available in different versions.
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Designer Michael Thonet
Michael Thonet was born in 1796 in Boppard am Rhein, where he opened his own workshop in 1819, from which the world-famous manufacturer Thonet emerged. It is still owned by the family, now in the 5th generation. Michael Thonet was a master cabinetmaker and is regarded as a pioneer of modern furniture production and design. At the beginning of his working life, he was intensively involved with the possibilities of bent wood and subsequently also with the technically economical realisation of late Biedermeier furniture forms and their industrial use.
Thonet - 200 years of tradition
The Frankenberg-based manufacturer stands for durability and the irrepressible urge to innovate. Thonet was the first manufacturer to bring bentwood furniture onto the market and to sell tubular steel furniture. Michael Thonet founded his own workshop in Boppard am Rhein in 1819. In the 1830s, he experimented with veneer strips boiled in glue and is therefore regarded as the inventor of "bentwood furniture". in 1842, he was invited to Vienna by the Austrian State Chancellor Prince Metternich and the coffee house culture there laid the foundation for Thonet's later success. With this innovative spirit, it is not surprising that Thonet also cultivated links with the Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer. Thonet realised Breuer's experiments with cold-bent tubular steel and produced the famous cantilever chairs.
Material and format
The coffee house chair is 43 cm wide, 52 cm deep and 84 cm high. The seat height is 46 cm. It is made of bentwood with a wickerwork seat and a plastic support fabric under the wickerwork seat.
Note on the wickerwork used
The wickerwork used is a natural product. This type of wickerwork is manufactured exclusively in the Far East and is supplied to Thonet as rolled-up fabric. The wickerwork threads are peeled from the Rotang palm tree, which grows in East Asia, and glued together. As this is a natural product, the quality and width of the individual threads can vary. Blunt-looking areas are, for example, growth rings on the plant. Growing and harvesting conditions also influence the quality of the weave.
The production of furniture by Thonet is carried out with a high level of technical and manual effort in order to guarantee a corresponding level of quality. For example, every chair with a wickerwork covering is specially checked again before it leaves the factory.
| Product number: | THONET 214 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Thonet |
| Design Year | 1859 |
| Designer | Michael Thonet |
| Herstellerartikelnummer | 214 |
| Shipping method | Normal parcel shipment |
| Material | Bentwood |
| Width (cm) | 43 |
| Depth (cm) | 52 |
| Height (cm) | 84 |
| Seating height (cm) | 46 |
