Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
1960s Norwegian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Steel
1950s Czech Art Deco Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Bentwood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Metal
2010s Austrian Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wicker, Wood, Beech, Bentwood, Paint
1920s Polish Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
2010s Austrian Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wicker, Wood, Beech, Bentwood, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Walnut, Bentwood
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Bentwood, Oak
2010s Austrian Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wicker, Wood, Beech, Bentwood, Paint
1940s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1910s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1990s Italian Post-Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Steel
Early 20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Leather, Bentwood
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
1940s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Canvas, Hardwood, Beech, Bentwood
1910s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood, Plywood
1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Plastic, Bentwood
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bentwood
1950s European Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1940s Austrian Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Bentwood
1950s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
20th Century Polish Art Nouveau Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Bentwood
1890s Austrian Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Oak, Bentwood
1930s American Bauhaus Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1940s Austrian Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Brass
1970s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Cane, Hardwood, Bentwood
1970s German Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Bentwood
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
Early 1900s Czech Jugendstil Antique Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rattan, Beech, Bentwood
1910s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Rattan, Beech, Bentwood
Early 2000s Czech Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Bentwood
1970s German Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Bentwood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Velvet, Bentwood, Pine
Mid-20th Century Italian Space Age Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bentwood
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Norwegian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Leather, Bentwood
1910s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
1990s American Modern Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Oak, Bentwood
1940s Czech Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1970s Dutch Post-Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Bamboo, Bentwood
1910s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood
1970s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1950s French Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Bentwood
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Bentwood
1960s Czech Vintage Bentwood Dining Room Chairs
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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