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Material: Bentwood
German Art Deco Dining Set in Oak, 1930s
Located in Prague 8, CZ
This very elegant dining set seats four people and features an adjustable oak dining table with four chairs. It has been made in Germany in the 1930s. The set has been professionally...
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1930s German Art Deco Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Sets
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood, Bentwood, Oak
Early Michael Thonet N.17 Bistro Dining Set in Bentwood and Cane - Austria
By Michael Thonet, Thonet
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
No. 17 dining set in bentwood and cane 'long john' chairs and table designed by Michael Thonet. Originally designed in the 1860s and produced by Thonet in the 20th century by multiple factories.
Size:
chairs: 57x49x96.5 seat height 46 Arm height 67 centimeter
table: ø85.5 height 75 centimeter
Condition: used. The lacquer has worn out on many places. The stained beech wood has discoloration. The cane in two seats is damaged. The cane in one back is damaged. One arm has a crack in a curve. Some small wood details are missing. The cane can be repaired or replaced professionally on request.
Michael Thonet
The development of bentwood for use in furniture is one of history’s most significant innovations in design. A range of renowned mid-century modern designers such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, and Charles and Ray Eames drew heavily on this technological advancement, and the success of their enduring works owes to the efforts of pioneering German-Austrian industrialist and designer Michael Thonet — founder of Thonet and widely considered the father of bentwood furniture.
Bentwood furniture dates as far back as the Middle Ages, but it is the 19th-century cabinetmaker and master of parquetry Michael Thonet who is most often associated with this now-classic technique. Thonet in 1856 patented a method for bending solid wood through the use of steam, and from there, the bentwood look skyrocketed to furniture fame. He experimented with bending birch rods into rounded shapes — forming delicately seductive, curving Art Nouveau creations that were a daring departure from the heavy, hand-carved designs attributed to his contemporaries.
The Boppard-born Thonet honed his carpentry skills in his father’s workshop, where he carried out experiments with plywood and modified the Biedermeier chairs that populated the studio. He received an invitation from Austrian Chancellor Prince Metternich to contribute Neo-Rococo interiors to the Liechtenstein City Palace in Vienna. From there, the cabinetmaker gained international recognition, including at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851, which featured works created by members of the Arts and Crafts movement as well as industrial products. Thonet showed a range of furniture at the fair and won the bronze medal for his bentwood chairs. He incorporated his family’s company, the Thonet Brothers — or Gebrüder Thonet — with his sons in 1853.
Considered the world’s oldest mass-produced chair, Michael Thonet’s ubiquitous Chair No. 14 demonstrated that his patented bentwood technology made it possible to efficiently produce furniture on an industrial scale.
Often called the Coffee House chair — the company’s first substantial order was for a Viennese coffeehouse — the No. 14 remains an icon. Thonet originally designed the chair in 1859, and it is considered the starting point for modern furniture. Composed of just six parts, the chair, with its simple, lightweight design, belies its durability. The No. 14 was followed by the No. 18, or the Bistro chair, in 1867, and the 209, or the Architect’s chair, of which Le Corbusier was a fan. (The influential Swiss-French architect and designer used Thonet furniture in his Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau at the 1925 International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris.)
The business began mass-producing furniture. By the end of the 1850s, there were additional Thonet workshops in Eastern Europe and hundreds of employees. Michael Thonet’s reputation attracted the attention of notable architects including Otto Wagner, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Thonet’s patented bentwood technology also yielded an improvement to rocking chairs for his company — in the middle of the 19th century, Michael produced a series of rockers in which the different curved parts were integrated into fluid, sinuous wholes. Thanks to Thonet, the humble rocker acquired something unexpected: style. And bentwood furniture was embraced by a series of design greats — the innovation can be found in the seating that Josef Hoffman designed for Thonet, in the elegant Superleggera chair created by Gio Ponti and Alvar Aalto’s expressive Paimio armchair...
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1860s Austrian Rococo Revival Antique Bentwood Dining Room Sets
Materials
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Art Deco Walnut Dining room set with Thonet chairs
By Thonet
Located in Ceglie Messapica, IT
Art deco dining room set made by Art deco walnut table with refined briar root top and four Thonet chairs "model Long John".
All pieces have been restored by our professional ebani...
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Alvar Aalto Dining Set with Lazy Susan and 6 Model 66 chairs, 1940s
Located in Helsinki, FI
Alvar Aalto reached world fame as an architect and furniture designer by no mistake. As he designed his different public and private buildings around the world, he also designed the ...
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1940s European Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Sets
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Bentwood Embassy Table & Four Chairs, Jan Bočan
By Jan Bočan
Located in London, GB
A bentwood table and four chairs designed by Czech architect Jan Bočan for the Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm.
Designed in 1970 by Jan Bočan, Jan Šrámek, Zdenka Rothbauer and Jiř...
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Thaden-Jordan 1940’s Herbert Von Thaden Mid-Century Modern Table/Chairs 5pc Set
Located in Thiensville, WI
Thaden-Jordan 1940’s Herbert Von Thaden Mid-Century Modern table & chairs 5pc set
• As designed by Herbert Von Thaden & Donald Lewis Jordan
• Manufactured by Thaden-Jordan Furniture...
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Bohemian Curved Bamboo & Cane Three Piece Dining Set from Italy, 1950s
Located in High Wycombe, GB
A Bohemian Curved Bamboo & Cane Three Piece Dining Set from Italy, 1950s
Wonderful addition to a contemporary or period garden room, with stow away seats ...
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Midcentury Thonet Bent Plywood Armchairs by Joe Atkinson, Set of 5
By Thonet, Joe Atkinson
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Set of five bent plywood armchair dining chairs Designed by Joe Atkinson for the Thonet furniture company. Each chair features a bent wood construction wi...
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George Mulhauser for Plycraft Sultana Dining Set, 1960s
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and stylish Mid-Century Modern "Sultana" dining set
By George Mulhauser for Plycraft
USA, 1960s
Table measures: 41.75" W x 41.75" D x 26" H. Knee clearance: 25" H.
C...
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Bauhaus Tubular-Steel Conference/Dinning Set, GMD Berlin, Germany, Design 1927
By GMD Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
Bauhaus tubular-steel conference or dining set by GMD Berlin, Germany.
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