Bentwood Armchairs

Mid-Century Italian Easy Chair, 1950s An elegant Italian mid-century easy chair from the 1950s, featuring a beautifully sculpted bentwood frame and refined, well-balanced proportion...

This striking Mid-Century Modern armchair, designed by Norman Cherner for Plycraft, is a true testament to the elegance of molded plywood. Featuring a sculptural silhouette, the chai...

Set of 2 Thonet S 320 Armchairs in stained reddish-brown plywood and chrome plated Steel, Germany, 1980s A striking set of four original Thonet S 320 armc...

Set of two Art Deco armchairs designed by famous Jindrich Halabala in 1930s in Czechoslovakia. One of his iconic models, H269. The armchairs have been professionally restored, reupho...

Sculptural Art Deco lounge chairs by Jindřich Halabala, featuring elegant bentwood armrests and original upholstery; a collectible Czech design classic with reupholstery recommended....

A design classic designed by Le Corbusier, the Chaise 209, signifies the pinnacle of craftsmanship and design. This elegant bentwood masterpiece displays exceptional construction and design: crafted with a single curved cantigate frame from French production, it forms both the backrest and armrests. Following the tradition of the original bentwood...

Sculptural Art Deco armchairs by Jindřich Halabala, featuring elegant curved bentwood armrests and original upholstery—an authentic and refined matched pair from 1940s Czechoslovakia...

Pair of wooden curved arms art deco armchairs, France, 1940s.  

A beautifully preserved antique bentwood armchair designed by Josef Hoffmann, the seminal Viennese architect and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte. This is the iconic Model 811, kn...

Set of two Art Deco armchairs designed by famous Jindrich Halabala in 1930s in Czechoslovakia. One of his iconic models, H269. The wooden elements have been professionally restored. ...

Iconic vintage Bauhaus black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs imported by Stendig for Thonet, a set of 4. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that these are vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear even if it has been refinished or restored. Specifically, there have been a few small repairs in the caning of all chairs and one chair seat has been replaced completely. It has been replaced with sheet cane and not individually woven. Please see photos, zoom in for details, and see long description as they are part of the condition report. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, Early to Mid-20th Century. Much like a fine wine or the Mona Lisa, some things just get better with age… That’s just a fact! Including these iconic vintage black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs by Stendig for Thonet! Talk about the ability to withstand the hands of time!! This Josef Hoffman 811 chair was originally designed in 1925 but remains a current and fabulous design that is highly sought after today. This set of 4 is comprised of beautiful black painted bentwood frames bearing slender rounded arms, slightly flared legs, and marvelous natural cane seats AND backs!! SPECTACULAR!!! Can’t you just SEE these beauties surrounding your kitchen table, breakfast nook, game table, or simply used as extra seating in the family room? We certainly can! Just the right touch of Bauhaus magnificence to any room and they’re sure to complement your home with their classic, historical excellence, whatever your style whether its Bauhaus, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, or Modern!! Josef Hoffman was one of Austria's most important architects and designers and was central to the development of art and design in Vienna. He grew up with three sisters and was nicknamed Pepo. His father was the town mayor and a successful businessman. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, a radical anti-historicist movement, and together with Koloman Moser created the Wiener Werkstatte cooperative workshop. A highly individualistic architect and designer, Hoffmann's work combined the simplicity of craft production with a refined aesthetic ornament. Between 1901 and 1905, he designed four villas in Vienna and a sanatorium in Brussels that was called “Stoclet House”, for which he developed a “cubistic” language of form, with an emphasis on straight, unadorned lines. In 1905, he established the Kunstschau with painter Gustav Klimt and, two years later, founded the Deutscher Werkbund. Hoffmann worked well into his 80s, continuing to use the geometric motifs that influenced the art deco style of the 1920s. In 1928 his work appeared in the Art in Industry exhibition held at Macy’s in New York City, where it exerted a strong influence on American designer Donald Deskey. Hoffmann is one of the seminal figures in the modern decorative arts movement of the first half of the 20th century. Stendig was totally the brainchild and passion of Charles W. Stendig. You cannot write or talk about Stendig without explaining Charles. He was a pioneer of import goods in the mid-century. After serving in WWII as a paratrooper, he studied business with emphasis on international trade at NYU and City College of New York. Afterward first working for Raymor, another pioneering distribution company, for about two years, departing to start his own business: Stendig. He opened his first showroom in 1956 in midtown Manhattan. He is credited for sparking America’s interest in furniture from Finland, Switzerland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. He imported from the likes of Thonet, Asko, and De Sede; and from iconic designers including Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann, Eero Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Marcel Breuer, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni to name just a few. By the late 1960’s, Stendig had showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a large headquarters in NYC. They were exciting and good times but short lived. The business was a challenge and when an offer was made by Burlington Industries to purchase, Charles agreed. He stayed on till 1976 to oversee and then retired. I have searched the internet to no avail to find out if a Stendig division is still in operation. But I can only find the Stendig Calendar, the only calendar in MoMA’s collection, which was designed for Stendig by Mossimo Vignelli, still offered. But I am having a hard time deciding who is creating and offering it. I do know Burlington Industries was bankrupt by 2001, purchased in 2003, merged with Cone Mills in 2004 and subsequently into ITG or International Textile Group. But the Stendig name reins as an icon of high style mid-century offerings. Thonet was founded by Michael Thonet. Michael was born in 1796 and was apprenticed by his father to a cabinetmaker. Shortly after he married, Michael opened his one-man cabinetmaking shop creating furniture and cabinetry in the traditional manner by carving the needed parts and then joining them together. In 1830 he began experimenting with bending wood into curved shapes and thus began a successful furniture company that has remained continually in operation for nearly 200 years. Thonet’s early work was very Biedermeier in style and not made for the common man. Gradually his designs became more Art Nouveau. In 1951 his chairs for the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair won a prize medal and by the late 1950s he began to make his first “consumer” chair. In 1875, a year before Michael’s death, Thonet’s five factories made 620,000 chairs. Then in 1876 after his death the company became Gebruder Thonet. But all was not roses. In 1869 the Thonet patents lapsed and by 1893 there were 52 bentwood companies in Europe. However, Thonet persevered. They branched out. They merged. They added designs by Le Corbusier and Breuer and alternative materials such as tubular chrome in place of bentwood to their offerings. Business boomed and waned through the years and there was even a Thonet revival, so to speak, beginning in the 1940s on into the mid-20th century. Till today, in the 21st century, Thonet is still a furniture company to be reckoned with almost 200 years later. We are in love with this iconic set of 4 Prague 811 chairs...

Sculptural pair of armchairs, designed by Norman Cherner for Plycraft, American, circa 1960s. These chairs are currently being refinished and will look amazing when completed.

Set of two elegant Italian modernism armchairs with wood turned legs and original upholstery.    

Beech bentwood walnut stained armchair made by Thonet in the 1930s. Excellent restored with seat springs upholstered with noblis creme boucé fabric. Another fabric and wood finish on...

Beech bentwood walnut stained armchair made by Thonet in the 1930s. Excellent restored with seat springs upholstered with green velvet. Another fabric and wood finish on request poss...

Beech bentwood walnut stained armchair made by Thonet in the 1930s. Excellent restored with seat springs upholstered with Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca fabric. Another fabric and wood...

Rare Bauhaus armchairs B 246 designed by Josef Frank and manufactured by Thonet in 1930s. Historically, this model was among those installed in the iconic Villa Rezek in Vienna, buil...

Beautiful vintage armchair produced by TON company in 1960s. The armchair is known as the Boomerang chair, named after the shape of the armrests which are made of bent woods and slig...

Beech bentwood walnut stained armchair made by Thonet in the 1930s. Excellent restored with seat springs upholstered with Dedar silk fabric. Another fabric and wood finish on reque...

Rare beech bentwood frame, leather upholstery. Designed circa 1900-1910 by Josef Hoffmann for Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna. Made by Thonet. Delivery time about 4-6 weeks. Price per c...

- french armchairs by Audoux & Minet - 1940s farm house style - very good condition with beautiful patina

Jindrich Halabala re-upholstered bentwood lounge chairs, 1940s Czech Republic. These iconic lounge chairs are from Czechia, dating back to circa 1940. Produced by Thonet, the model ...

Sculptural Art Deco armchairs by Jindřich Halabala, featuring iconic Czech bentwood armrests and original upholstery—an authentic and elegant matched pair from the 1940s. This rare ...

A pair of vintage low Mid-Century modern French armchairs made of hand crafted polished Beechwood and Bentwood, designed and produced by Baumann France in good condition. The detaile...

A charming and exquisite Edwardian chair, with inlaid back and legs, and padded seat and backrest upholstered in patterned fabric, original from the period. The chair rests on curved...

Mid-Century Modern "Pretzel" armchair by Norman Cherner for Plycraft. ________________________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing...

Beech bentwood walnut stained armchair made by Thonet in the 1930s. Excellent restored with seat springs upholstered with leather imitated fabric. Another fabric and wood finish on r...

Karel Koželka & Antonín Kropáček re-upholstered bentwood Armchairs, Czechia 1940 We offer re-upholstered Karel Koželka & Antonín Kropáček bentwood armchairs, originally designed in ...

This antique armchair, model no. 752, was designed in the 1920s by Josef Frank for Thonet and originates from Austria. It is made from beech and features an upholstery seat. This pie...

Four bentwood chairs mod. Fledermaus by Josef Hoffmann for Thonet, 1910s It is one of the most famous creations of the Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann, one of the founding fathers...

Lounge Chairs in Bentwood and Cognac Leather, Italy 1970 A couple of big, stylish lounge armchairs that feature round lines and shapes invite you to take a seat and relax—designed ...

- The frame has been carefully refurbished - Original fabric in good condition

1930s Jindřich Halabala Bentwood Lounge Chairs in Sheepskin, Thonet Iconic 1930s Jindřich Halabala bentwood lounge chairs by Thonet, reupholstered in natural ivory-to-cream sheepski...

Karel Koželka & Antonín Kropáček Bentwood Armchairs. These iconic set chairs from Czechia, circa 1940, designed by By Karel...

A very rare version of the Tank chair by Miroslav Navratil, labeled on a right armrest with the letter "N" and a picture of a house ("Navratil" means "back home" in Czech). The woode...

Jindrich Halabala re-upholstered patinated bentwood lounge chairs, 1940s Czech Republic. These iconic lounge chairs are from Czechia, dating back to circa 1940. Produced by Thonet, ...

A rare very early model Nr. 3 manufactured in Austria by the Gebrüder Thonet Company. Marked with paper label and stamp, which is used, circa 1860. Newly restored.

Made in Czechoslovakia. Made of bentwood, fabric. The fabric is suitable fot reupholstery. Wood is good condition. Two pieces in stock. Original condition.

Secession bentwood armchairs no.6093 by Otto Wagner for Thonet. Armchairs were restored in the past, needs to be need firming up, they are a bit...

Rare and completely restored armchair from the era of Vienna Secession. Designed by Otto Wagner for j&J Kohn

Iconic and elegant armchair produced by TON in Czech republic in 1930s. This particular chair is a variation on the classic model '811' Thonet Hoffman chair...

1970s, Danish design by Farstrup. Set of 2 armchairs. Original brown furniture leather, bent wood, canvas. Original good condition: no smells, no stains and stable construction. Manu...

Strip chair by Dutch designer Gijs Bakker for Castelijn, 1974. A rare version with armrests, only a limited amount had been produced. Made of 8 bended ...

A cool pair of bentwood lounge chairs circa 1940, by mid century icons Koželka & Kropáček. Low slung seats are supported with bentwood that forms the arms and legs. Newly upholstered...

Duocolor armchairs by Jindřich Halabala. Professionally stained and repolished.

Beech bentwood still not restored but restoration will be done on request and is in price included. Up to 6 pcs available.

The art nouveau armchair was made of bentwood. The seat has been reupholstered and covered with a very beautiful Art Nouveau fabric. The chair is reminiscent of Thonet chairs, but n...

Jindrich Halabala Adjustable H-70 Oak Bentwood Lounge Chair, Praque 1930s This H-70 armchair was designed by Jindrich Halabala and produced by Spojene U...

Dark brown bentwood dining armchair or bistro chair. In the style of Thonet with original webbing We date it at early 1950s. Good condition with normal age related wear. ...

Armchairs designed in the late 1930s by Jindrich Halabala, fully restored and upholstered with watermark stripe-mirror sheen crushed velvet. Only one restored, delivery time 3-4 wee...

Remarkable set of armchairs, designed by Thonet and expertly manufactured by Ligna in the 1950s. Combining Thonet's visionary design aesthetic with Ligna's craftsmanship, these armch...

An Austrian (Vienna) pair of bentwood B-9 armchairs by Jacob and Josef Kohn circa 1870. An original iconic chair. This is the favourite chair of architects especially from "Le Corbus...

Get cozy in this luxurious pair of Mid-Century Modern bentwood lounge chairs by Thonet circa 1950 freshly reupholstered in vanilla creme sheepskins. Lounge on clouds of soft vanilla creme sheepskins that beckon you to stay awhile...

This H-70 armchair was designed by Jindrich Halabala and produced by Spojene UP zavody, circa 1930. The backrest and seat can be put in three different pos...

This is a pair of armchairs designed by the architect Jaroslav Smidek and produced by the TON company during the 1960s, the armchairs have wooden armrests made of bent wood and fabr...

Pair of armchairs, model 209 (also called Wiener Stuhl), made by Thonet, one of which is marked. Legendary Swiss architect Le Corbusier was fascinated with this model and used it in ...

Thonet Armchair Catalog Number 1798 The surface is already walnut stained and shellack polished. The cover will be made on customer request and is already in price included. More...

This Armchair is made in the Thonet Mundus style. The arms are made of bentwood as they stabilize the back of the chair. The legs are stabilized by bentwood stretchers. The chair is ...

1970s, Danish lounge chair in original very good condition: no smells and no stains. Light brown furniture fabric, beech bent wood. Removable seat cus...

Thonet club chairs no.6517 by Marcel Kammerer for Thonet Austria 1905 in original condition with signs of usage.