Michael Thonet (Boppard, 2 de julho de 1796 — Viena, 3 de março de 1871) foi um construtor de móveis e industrial alemão. Em 1830 inventou uma máquina para fabricar móveis de madeira curvada, especialmente cadeiras. Tendo se estabelecido em Viena durante a década de 1860, desenvolveu uma produção em série e barata, que acabou sendo bastante exportada e imitada: a cadeira do chamado "estilo austríaco"[1]. Um de seus modelos mais conhecidos é a cadeira Bentwood. Foi sepultado no Cemitério de São Marcos. Cadeiras Bentwood de Michael Thonet (1850). Sepultura da família no Cemitério Central de VienaLate 19th century design - Austria Beautiful solid rocking chair with webbing seat and backrest. The base is made of curved (steamed) beech wood. The "bentwood and cane" rocking chair was designed in the late 19th century by the Thonet brothers in Vienna, Austria. The chair from this lot was made after 1950. Condition: good to very good.
The chair is equipped with a new webbing seat (by chair-maker Fedde de Vries) and is again suitable for normal use. Height x width x depth: 100 x 55 x 95 cm. (39.4 x 21.7 x 37.4 inches). Seat height: ca. 40 centimetres. Seat surface: width x depth 42 x 45 cm. (16.5 x 17.7 inches). The chair has a dark brown beech colour and the webbing seat is new and therefore lighter than the backrest, see photos. The chair will be disassembled prior to shipment. The item will be shipped by PostNL via registered mail. Can also be picked up in Epe, Gelderland. View all 234 reviews Rest of the World The seller will ship the item(s) within 3 working days after receiving confirmation of payment. Some sellers may offer the possibility of picking up items by arrangement. You can pick up this lot from the seller: If you win more than one lot sold by the same seller in the same auction, your shipment will be combined. In this case, only the shipping costs of whichever lot has the highest shipping costs will be applied.
Please note: this seller will only charge for shipping once, even if you live in another country. All of our auctions are subject to notarial supervision Place your bids any time, any place? Download the Catawiki Auction App The Vienna Café chair No. 14 is probably the most successful example of Thonet bentwood furniture. Certainly it is the most simple and prolific. It was produced starting in 1859, as a "chair for mass consumption," and by 1930, more than 50 million had been produced. It is assembled from six pieces of wood held together with screws and nuts, with a caned seat. Gebruder Thonet, the Austrian company founded in 1853 by German cabinet maker Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and his five sons, had 52 factories in Europe by 1900, making bentwood furniture. Other models of that era include the Rocking Chair # 10, produced since 1866, and a senuous reclining couch, Model No. 2, produced since 1885. All were designed by Michael Thonet. The Vienna Café chair No. 14 achieved a permanent place in modern design history when it was included in an innovative housing exhibit called L'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exposition Internationale in 1925.
Virtually un-noticed at the time, the exhibit, designed by French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965--born as Charles Edouard Jeanneret Gris ) and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967), was an essentially bare and undecorated home interior, with metal file cabinets, bistro wine glasses, laboratory flasks as vases, industrial equipment, and commercial furniture (the Thonet chair) as part of the "decor". It was In fact, it expressed a complete rejection of decorative art, but within five years would greatly influence the direction of the modern movement, because of its emphasis on making the home a more efficient place, rather than the soon-to-be outdated emphasis on stylistic decor. Michael Thonet opened his furniture cabinetry workshop in 1819 in a rural Austrian town. By 1835, he was experimenting with a then-new technology of bending solid wood into chair parts, and by 1841, had patented his unique technique, characterized by flowing forms and the resultant lightweight product. The same year, he exhibited in a Koblenz trade show, resulting in an opportunity to take his workshop to the capital,Vienna.
Vienna Café society provided an attractive market for side chairs, and Thonet began a series of such designs starting in 1857. He had already transferred the business, in 1853, to his five sons: Franz, Michael, August, Josef and Jacob. His patents for the process expired in 1869, and imitations abounded. Thonet opened a London office in 1862 and a New York office in 1873. Starting in 1900, Thonet became very involved with the Art Nouveau movement, collaborating with architects and designers in the production of innovative designs. Gebrüder Thonet was in business until 1922, when it was absorbed into a corporate empire, the Thonet-Mundus holding company, headed by Leopold Pilzer (1871-1959), with over 10,000 workers and 20 production sites. In 1938, Leopold Pilzer, head of Thonet-Mundus, emigrated to the US, purchased three US furniture companies as subsidiaries, and established Thonet Industries, Inc. with headquarters in New York. After the war, Thonet relied on its in-house staff and followed a conservative business pattern in contract furniture.
Thonet Industries celebrated its one-hundred year anniversary at a 1953 exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1962, became a subsidiary of the Simmons Company. In 1973, under new president James Riddering, Thonet Industries move to York, PA and converted from an in-house design system to an independent design program. In 1975, it launched a New Design Program directed by Joan M. Burgasser, engaging designers such as Don Petit, Warren Snodgrass, and David Rowland. In 1979, Thonet and its parent company, Simmons, were acquired by Gulf & Western, and in 1987, Thonet assets, including an historical collection of 200 pieces, were sold to Shelby Williams Industries, Inc. In 1993, Mr. Manfred Steinfeld, a former Chairman of that firm, lent this collection for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that year, which published Against the Grain, a photographic history of bentwood furniture, concurrent with the exhibition. Who of this threesome “invented” the Cantilever Chair?
They knew each other. All three worked for, or with people who worked for, the German Bauhaus. I looked up the following 3 different language varieties of Wikipedia: Stam is the designer of the first cantilever tubular chair. On 22 November 1926 he showed a sketch with a blue pen of it on the back side of the wedding announcement of the German painter Willy Baumeister at a dinner party in the Stuttgart hotel Marquart. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was at that dinner Party. Presently this wedding announcement is reportedly in the Mies van der Rohe archive of MoMa, NYC. The first producer of this chair is the German company Lorenz. In 1927 both Mart Stam and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe showed their versions of this idea in their respective houses of the Weissenhofsiedlung project in Stuttgart. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mentions only the design in 1929 of the Barcelona chair (also cantilevered but with flat steel, rather than tubular) Mentions the design of a steel tubular chair in 1925 for Wassily Kandinsky, hence known as the Wassily chair that still is in production.
In the late 1920s, Breuer and Stam were involved in a patent lawsuit in German courts, both claiming to be the inventor of the basic cantilever chair design principle. Stam won the lawsuit, and, since that time, specific Breuer chair designs have often been erroneously attributed to Stam. In the United States, Breuer assigned the rights to his designs to Knoll, and for that reason it is possible to find the identical chair attributed to Stam in Europe and to Breuer in the U.S. Ludwig Mies van der RoheThrough a redirect to Lilly Reich His personal and professional partner for 13 years: Through her involvement with the Werkbund Lilly Reich also met Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. In 1926 she moved from Frankfurt to Berlin to work with Mies. She was Van Der Rohe’s personal and professional partner for 13 years from 1925 until his emigration to the US in 1938. It is said that they were constant companions, working together on curating and implementing exhibitions for the Werkbund, as well as designing modern furniture as part of larger architectural commissions such as the Barcelona Pavilion in 1929 and the Tugendhat House in Brno.
Two of their best known modern furniture designs from this period are the Barcelona chair and Brno Chair. Albert Pheiffer, Vice President of Design and Management at Knoll, has been researching and lecturing on Reich for some time. He points out that: “It became more than a coincidence that Mies’s involvement and success in exhibition design began at the same time as his personal relationship with Reich.” “It is interesting to note that Mies did not fully develop any contemporary furniture successfully before or after his collaboration with Reich”. When Mies Van der Rohe became the director of the Bauhaus School of design and architecture in 1930, Lilly Reich joined him there as one of the only female teachers. Reich taught interior design and furniture design until the late 1930s. Places the design of the Wassily Chair in 1925. 1926: invented the cantilever chair which Marcel Breuer eventually developped further. MR 10 and MR 20, also known as “Weißenhof-Chair”, cantilever chair of steel with chromium finish: 1927