Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
1990s American Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Oak, Bentwood
1970s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
19th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Bentwood
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1940s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1940s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s Czech Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1980s American Chippendale Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rattan, Bentwood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Wood, Bentwood
1960s Czech Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rattan, Bentwood
1940s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Bentwood, Plywood
1920s European Art Nouveau Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rosewood, Teak, Bentwood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bentwood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood, Fabric
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bentwood
Mid-20th Century American Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Oak, Bentwood
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
1960s Czech Bauhaus Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1920s Slovak Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood, Rattan, Beech
1970s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Textile, Rattan, Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Early 1900s Czech Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood, Cane
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Early 20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Austrian Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Steel, Chrome
1940s Czech Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
1910s Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Austrian Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
2010s Scandinavian Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Velvet, Bentwood, Ash
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Birch, Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rope, Bentwood
1920s Polish Art Deco Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Late 20th Century American Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Oak, Bentwood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Birch, Bentwood
1950s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Post-Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Beech, Bentwood
1950s Hungarian Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
20th Century European Art Nouveau Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Early 1900s Slovak Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rattan, Beech, Bentwood
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In America, dining rooms weren’t even much of a concept until the late 1700s, when a space set aside specifically for dining became a part of the construction of homes for the wealthy. In Europe, neoclassical dining chairs emerged during the 1750s owing to nostalgia for classical antiquity, while the curving chair crests of Queen Anne furniture in the United States preceded the artistically bold seat backs that characterized the Chippendale chairs that followed.
Today sees a wide range of dining room chairs on offer, however, which means that they can now be styled in different ways, bringing functionality and fun to any sumptuous dining space. No longer do tables have to be accompanied by a matching set of seats. Skillfully mixing and matching colors and designs allows you to showcase your personality without sacrificing the cohesion of a given space, and bentwood dining chairs, in addition to being comfortable, can bring texture and character to the dining area in your home.
Antique, new and vintage bentwood dining chairs and other bentwood furniture have become very popular in interiors over the years. Today bentwood chairs, tables, sofas and pendants are receiving striking modern interpretations from makers like Thonet, which are being carried on by the next generation.
Bentwood furniture dates as far back as the Middle Ages, but it is German-Austrian chair maker Michael Thonet who is most often associated with this now-classic technique. Thonet turned bentwood rocking chairs and other types of bentwood chairs into a work of art. The designer manufactured chairs out of steam-bent wood, and starting in the middle of the 19th century, he produced a series of rocking chairs in which the different curved parts were integrated into fluid, sinuous wholes. From there the bentwood look skyrocketed to furniture fame.
Bentwood was eventually embraced by design greats ranging from Josef Hoffmann to Gio Ponti, and Adolf Loos to Alvar Aalto for its versatility, timelessness and simple elegance. Mid-century modernists Charles and Ray Eames added wooden rockers to their famous plastic shell armchair, while Danish designer Frank Reenskaug opted for teak and polished beech, introducing pops of color with small cushions (a precursor to the bold works that would follow in the 1970s and 1980s).
In the Czech Republic — home to a range of talented but unsung mid-century modern and Art Deco designers — the company TON held a bentwood furniture exhibition in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in recent years. TON manufactures their bentwood furniture in the same workshops where Michael Thonet set up his operations in the 1800s.
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