Bentwood Armchairs

Iconic Mid-Century Modern "Pretzel" Arm Chair designed by Norman Cherner for Plycraft Co. circa 1950s. Originally designed to make Modern design accessible to the masses, this incred...

**Pair of Jindřich Halabala Art Deco Bentwood Lounge Chairs, 1930s** An elegant pair of Art Deco lounge armchairs by Jindřich Halabala, dating from the 1930s. Combining sweeping ben...

Rare pair of two Art Deco armchairs, model H-269, designed by the renowned Czech designer Jindřich Halabala in the 1930s in Czechoslovakia. The H-269 is one of Halabala’s most iconic...

Rare pair of iconic H269 lounge chairs, designed by the renowned Czech designer Jindřich Halabala in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. The H269 is one of Halabala’s most recognizable desi...

Elegant Model No. 30 bentwood armchair, a classic Thonet design, manufactured by TON in Czechoslovakia during the mid-20th century. The chair is distinguished by its beautifully scul...

1960s lounge chair by Murphy-Miller, Inc. This chair features sculptural bent walnut armrests, original black vinyl upholstery and splayed metal legs. It swivels and rocks on a sprin...

Striking mid-century bentwood bridge or club armchair that beautifully channels the geometric and flowing forms of the Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern movements (circa 1940s–1950s). ...

Bentwood Thonet armchair with original hand-caned seat 20.13”W x 25”D x 35.25”H with a 18.25”H seat and 27.38”H arms The heart motif in the back of this chair gives it a charm and ...

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

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...

Art Nouveau bentwood armchair, circa 1900, attributed to Thonet. The chair displays the elegant curved backrest and flowing arm supports characteristic of Viennese Secession design. ...

Stunning organic modern lounge chair from 1940s Czechoslovakia, featuring a sculptural bentwood beech frame and newly upholstered in luxurious Tibetan lambswool (shearling) in a soft...

Exceptional organic modern lounge chair from 1940s Czechoslovakia, featuring a beautifully aged dark patinated bentwood beech frame and newly upholstered in luxurious Tibetan lambswo...

This swivel chair is a classic Eames Lounge Chair, often manufactured by Herman Miller or Vitra. Characterized by its bentwood frame and leather upholstery, it is considered an icon ...

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...

Armchairs designed in the late 1930s by Jindrich Halabala for Thonet, fully restored. Delivery time 5-6 weeks.  

1960s, Danish armchair. Cherry-red furniture velour, bent beech wood, springs in the seat. Original good condition: no smells, no stains and stable construction. Manufactured by Dani...

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...

Designed by Frank Gehry for Knoll, these Hat Trick armchairs exemplify Gehry’s radical rethinking of structure, material, and form at the intersection of architecture and furniture design. Executed in laminated bent maple, each chair is composed as a rhythmic assemblage of curving wood ribbons: a vertically slatted, crown-like backrest rises above a generously proportioned seat, while integrated armrests flow seamlessly into an expressive base formed by entwined legs and stretchers. The visual language is unmistakably Gehry—dynamic, deconstructed, and sculptural—yet resolved with ergonomic intelligence and functional clarity. Originally introduced in the mid-1990s, the Hat Trick series emerged from Gehry’s long-standing interest in bending conventional materials to their physical and aesthetic limits. Much like his architectural work, these chairs foreground process and structure, allowing the construction itself to define the final form. The result is furniture that reads as inhabitable sculpture, equally compelling in a domestic interior, architectural setting, or design-forward commercial space. Both chairs retain original Knoll underside branding, including “Made in USA” stamp, printed Gehry signature, and date mark 1/19/96, confirming authenticity and period manufacture. Offered as a matched pair, they present a rare opportunity to acquire an important example of late-20th-century American design by one of the most influential architects of our time. Ideal for a design-forward residential interior, these Frank Gehry for Knoll Hat...

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

Large Roomy Bentwood Carver Chair This is a rare and charming piece the carver chair is made in bentwood with a large pressed ply wood seat, the design is a classic from the beginni...

1970s, Swedish design by Åke Fribytter. Brown furniture leather, canvas, bent oak wood. Original very good condition: no smells, no stains and stable construction. Manufactured by Sw...

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...

This model is inspired by the Thonet no. 10 rocker from circa 1880. It´s made in Spain, circa 1940-1950. It was restored and it´s in perfect shape.

Armchairs by Gustav Siegel for Kohn (model no. 715) Beech, bent wood, curved, brown stained. Inside of the seat ring inscribed.: J. & J. KOH...

A pair of H-269 armchairs designed by Jindřich Halabala and produced in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. The chairs feature the characteristic curved wooden armrests and retain their or...

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

Pair of Mid-Century Modern Thonet bentwood birch arm chairs. Has original worn Light green textured cloth upholstery. Worn vintage condition very structural - Need reupholstering or ...

Set of 2 Model 925 armchairs designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Cassina in 1966. Stained walnut frame, leather seats, in excellent condition, restored. Brand of the manufacture. ...

Armchairs designed in the late 1950s by Jindrich Halabala, fully restored and upholstered with Lelieve red velvet. Only one restored, delivery time 3-4 weeks.    

1970s, Scandinavian design. Armchair in brown furniture leather, canvas, beech bent wood. Original very good condition: no smells, no stains and stable construction. Manufactured by ...

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...

Model 802 armchair - Design by Carlo de Carli, manufactured by Cassina, Italy, 1954. The wooden frame with foam upholstery rests on elastic ribbons. The a...

A swivel armchair with a vintage look, upholstered in soft, velvet-like fabric in a warm camel/brown color. The spacious, enveloping seat and contoured backrest make it perfect for a...

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...

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 ...

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

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.

An exceptional pair of Mid-Century Modern lounge armchairs, manufactured by the prominent Hungarian branch Thonet Debrecen. This striking pair perfectly embodies the transitional el...

Design attributed to Otto Wagner. Wood finish and upholstery according to customer requirements. Price for already restored ones. Up to eight pieces available, more on request. Deli...

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...

A rare set of two iconic H269 Art Deco armchairs designed by Jindřich Halabala in the 1930s, Czechoslovakia. Beautifully restored wooden frames have been cleaned and wax-finished to ...

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...

The oldest version of chair No. 14 in almost perfect original condition. Only one armrest has repaired cracks and the string also has a few defects. Otherwise, the chair is remarkabl...

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 ...

Stylish 21st Century contemporary black armchair/ lounge chair created by a very talented Indonesian artist. This incredible designed, modern armchair impresses with its artfully sha...

1970s, Danish armchair by Georg Thams. Original brown furniture leather, bent beech wood, canvas. Original good condition: no smells, no stains and stable construction. Leather with ...

# Pair of Jindřich Halabala Art Deco Sculptural Bentwood Lounge Armchairs, 1930s An elegant and highly decorative pair of Art Deco lounge armchairs attributed to **Jindřich Halabala...

This iconic Lamino easy chair was designed by the acclaimed Swedish architect and designer Yngve Ekström in 1956, manufactured by Swedese and is widely celebrated as a cornerstone of...

This pair of vintage wooden chairs features beautiful natural wood grain and a classic, timeless design. Both chairs have gently curved armrests, sturdy legs, and solid construction....

Armchair, Model 925, designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Cassina in 1966. Stained walnut frame, leather seat, in excellent condition, restored. Tobia Scarpa was born in Venice in ...

This pair of Art Deco armchairs features curved bentwood arms in golden birch with visible figuring throughout. Frames showcase the sweeping, sculptural lines characteristic of Frenc...

1970s, Swedish design by Bruno Mathsson, model "Pernilla". Original very nice patinated brown furniture leather, bent wood. Original good condition: no smells, no stains and stable c...

Beach bentwood design by Otto Wagner about 1900 The fabric on the chairs is obsolete but I can offer you huge range Vienna Secession fabrics instad of. Delivery time 5-6 weeks  

1970s, Scandinavian lounge chair in original very good condition: no smells, no stains, stable construction. Original brown leather, dark bent wood, brown canvas. Manufactured by Dan...

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

An exceptional and rare pair of lounge chairs designed by Adalberto Dal Lago and produced by Germa in 1974. Featuring a bold sculptural form, these chairs stand out for their distinc...

JIndrich Halabala re-upholstered patinated bentwood lounge chairs from the 1930s, Czech Republic. These iconic lounge chairs originate from Czechia and date back to around 1930. The...

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...

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...