S 64 PVDR Atelier Swivel Chair Thonet

Upholstered: S 64 PVDR Atelier swivel chair by Thonet

A classic is on the move - the working world is subject to constant change. Employees switch back and forth between home office, workplace and work on the road in trains and planes. And furniture classics also have to become more flexible. Thonet has taken this to heart and given an icon of classic furniture design wheels.

The S 64 by Marcel Breuer is now available in the Atelier version, making it mobile as a swivel chair with a central base on castors. Swiss designer Christophe Marchand has accompanied this redesign of a design classic and dedicated himself to this task with great sensitivity and respect for the original design idea.

Designer Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the state Bauhaus in Weimar from 1920 to 1924. There he took over the management of the carpentry workshop from 1925. What began as a private project quickly became part of the Bauhaus Dessau: his groundbreaking furniture designs made of tubular steel. Breuer left the Bauhaus in 1928 and sought closer contact with industry, including Thonet. He settles in Berlin as an architect and works mainly in the field of interior design before working for Thonet for a few years. In 1930/31 he created a comprehensive collection of tubular steel chairs. Breuer left Germany via Budapest, London and finally landed in the USA in 1937. At this time he developed plywood and aluminium furniture. Through the mediation of Walter Gropius, Breuer became a lecturer and later even a professor of architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge. From 1941, he and Gropius ran an architecture studio together. Breuer is considered one of the most central figures in the history of architecture and design.

Thonet - 200 years of tradition

The Frankenberg-based manufacturer stands for durability and an irrepressible drive for innovation. Thonet was the first manufacturer to bring bentwood furniture to the market and the first to market tubular steel furniture. Michael Thonet founded his own workshop in Boppard am Rhein in 1819. In the 1830s he experimented with strips of veneer boiled in glue and is therefore regarded as the inventor of "furniture made of bent wood". 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. Given this desire for innovation, it is not surprising that Thonet also cultivated links with the Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer. Thus Thonet implemented Breuer's experiments with cold-bent tubular steel and produced the famous cantilever chairs.

Material and format

The frame with the five-arm swivel base on castors is made of aluminium. The wooden parts are made of stained beech. The seat and back are fully upholstered and have plastic piping or cross stitching. The chair is 68 cm wide, 68 cm deep and 75 cm high. The seat height is 40 cm.

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