Bentwood Seating

Revolving high stool in bentwood with upholstered seat and backrest. Thonet style, Austria, 1930s Nicely constructed in turned bentwood standing up on four legs with a foot rest ring. The wood structure is strong and sturdy. Height adjustable. Nice aged patina. This eye-catching rotating stool...

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

An original 1940s bentwood lounge chair by Czech modernist designers Karel Kozelka and Antonín Kropáček, representing a refined and sculptural example of Central European functionali...

Rare Set of four Labeled Austrian Bentwood & Cane Dining Chairs by Josef Hoffmann - Austria early 1900s. This exceptional set of dining chairs is a premier example of early 20th-cen...

Set of 4 Thonet dining chairs model 17 This exceptional set of four bentwood beech chairs, produced by the renowned manufacturer Thonet, features the iconic Model 17, more commonly ...

Cataract II a side/filler chair made in solid ashwood by bending wood. Three of the legs have been made using the wood-bending technique to adopt an abstract natural wave-like design...

Classic steam bent Vienna Secessionist side chair made in Czechoslovia, by J.J. Kohn & Mundus, circa 1900/1920's. The chair is in very good, clean, ready to use condition, showing o...

Rare 1960s chairs by Osvaldo Borsani. Meticulously restored to bring out the chairs' beauty, while preserving the desirable patina and evidence of age. Doubled steel legs, teak venee...

The Scacciapensieri armchair feels like it was designed to let you exhale. A single, fluid arc in bentwood holds a suspended fabric seat that wraps gently around the body. Rather tha...

Set of 4 Thonet Cafe Daum N°4, 1960. By Salvatore Leone No 4 "Café Daum" designed by Thonet around 1860, and constantly produced until 1930 by the fa...

A rare pair of Alvar Aalto model E66 chairs, designed in 1930s. Good vintage condition, patina consistent with age and use. The chairs are sold as a set. We can dismantle the chairs...

Genuine black leather and bentwood that gives an aesthetic definition with the typical Scandinavian narrative. Both pieces are in excellent condition, having been used very little an...

Vintage Scandinavian Ergonomical Design Balance / Rocking Chair 'ZERO GRAVITY' by Norwegian Designer Peter Opsvik for Stokke Varier. Made in Denmark, 1991 design. Black stained bentw...

An exquisite pair of Swedish lounge chairs from the Art Deco period, likely dating to the 1930s–1940s, characterized by their bold, sculptural bentwood arms that elegantly flow into ...

Set of six Danish Mid-Century oak dining chairs in the style of Kurt Østervig, featuring red leather upholstered seats and distinctive curved bentwood grips integrated into the backr...

Iconic N. 14 Bistro dining chair or side chair designed by Michael Thonet, rendered in black painted beech bentwood frame with a woven wicker cain...

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...

A classic example of Scandinavian ergonomic design, this vintage "Consul" recliner and ottoman set by Ekornes for Stressless offers supreme comfort and timeless style. Manufactured i...

This rare pair of Thonet rattan chairs, crafted in 1890, showcases exceptional craftsmanship and timeless design. Produced by the renowned Thonet company, these chairs feature a sturdy rattan frame with intricate woven detailing that adds both elegance and comfort. This particular model is a rare find, making it a unique addition for collectors or enthusiasts of vintage Thonet furniture...

1 of 2 Thonet No. 15 chairs was manufactured 1960. The chair was designed by Michael Thonet in 1859. It features a beech bentwood frame with cane. Clear wood finish. Wood and ca...

This floating 1960s sofa was manufactured by Viko Baumritter , an American furniture Company that later became Ethan Allen. The sofa has a metal frame and metal splay legs with a fau...

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.

Pair of Flight High Chairs by Takeshita Okamura & Erik Marquardsen for Nelo of Sweden. All Black leather chairs with black lacquer wood frames. Good vintage condition. Great desi...

Bent oak dining chair by Gilbert Steiner with an elegant construction and a flexible back with brass hardware. 12 available priced as singles.

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...

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...

Set of Ten Bentwood Dining Chairs in the style of Marcel Breuer, bentwood and cane. From the late seventies, from a beautiful modern Coral Gables home.

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

Series 7 Chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen, 2001. Arne Jacobsen stacking dining chairs Model 3107 with cognac leather removable upholstery. Model 3107 also know as series 7, B...

Patinated Bentwood Lounge Chairs by Kozelka & Kropáček in Long-Haired Icelandic Sheepskin, 1940s This pair of bentwood lounge chairs by Czech designers Karel Kozelka and Antonín Kro...

Marvelous vintage Bauhaus style rocking chair or rocker comprised of a chrome tube frame and bentwood trim surrounding a cane seat & back. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that t...

Set of 4 bentwood and cane dining chairs in the style of the A 811 Josef Hoffmann

A stained bentwood side chair designed by Werner West and produced by Wilhelm Schauman Fanerfabrik AB, Jyväskylä, Finland, 1930s. Seat height: 17”

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...

Stylish child’s bentwood rocking chair attached to Thonet. This example is in very good original condition showing only light wear normal and consistent with age. Measures: Total H ...

Very rare pair of the first edition(!) of bentwood chairs by Thonet from the early 20th century, produced by Thonet in Bohemia. Designed around 1906 by none other than the world reno...

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 Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca fabric. Another fabric and wood...

Patinated Bentwood Lounge Chairs by Kozelka & Kropáček in Long-Haired Icelandic Sheepskin, 1940s This pair of bentwood lounge chairs by Czech designers Karel Kozelka and Antonín Kro...

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...

Mid-Century Czech design by Kozelka & Kropacek, reupholstered in luxurious Texel sheepskin with warm brown patinated bentwood frames. Comfort, craftsmanship, and timeless style. De...

Set of four classic Thonet bent wood bistro chairs manufactured by Radomsko, a distinguished former Thonet factory located in Poland. These chairs represent the enduring legacy of Mi...

Mid-20th Century Josef Hoffmann For FMG Poland ebonized bentwood and Cane chair. Newer caning. Priced per item.

Iconic Mid-Century Modern Art Deco lounge chair by Jindřich Halabala with sculptural bentwood arms. This exceptional Mid-Century Modern Art Deco lounge chair was designed by Czech m...

Bruno Mathsson reading chair, originally designed in 1934 in laminated beech bent wood with linen webbing. This later version has original webbing and is...

Pair of Bentwood Lounge Chairs with Original Upholstery, Sourced from a Historic Prague Hotel (Two Sets Available) Offered here is a pair of bentwood lounge chairs that beautifully ...

The “Poem” lounge chair designed by Noboru Nakamura for IKEA in the 1970s. The chair features a bentwood birch frame with a continuous sled base and wide curved armrests, paired with...

Set of four Model No. 17 bentwood dining chairs by Thonet, first produced in Vienna in 1904 and later license made in Naples by Sautto & Liberale for Thonet. Crafted using Thone...

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

Set of 3 Italian riviera bistro style bar stools. Made in Romania in the 1950s. Made with precise bent wood and topped with a cane seat. A classic interpretation of a stool. Count...

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...

Chair, Thonet Style, Bentwood, Cane - beautiful patina Period: 1960s Materials: Bentwood, Cane (new cane seat) Condition: solid, signs of use, undamaged Colour: Wood Dimensions:...

This old authentic rocking chair was designed Michael Thonet and manufactured by Thonet. It was in the catalogue of 1904. It is a design classic. This dark brown rocking chair is in very good vintage condition with normal signs of age and use. The chair is stamped. Take your chance to get this Thonet collector’s item. Michael Thonet (1796-1871) was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture, which ment the beginning of Modern Design. Le Corbusier used Thonet chairs...

Stylish swivel lounge chair by Göte Möbel, Sweden, dating from the 1970s. The chair features a sculptural frame in light bentwood, supporting a generously padded seat and backrest up...

Customized for KYLEE SHINTAFFER 72" W x 18" D x 36"H seat height 19.5" The elegant steam bent back curves into the subtle live edge seat to form the arms at each end of this modern...

Mid-Century, Fritz Hansen style auditorium chairs. This lot was originally used in a Dutch church. Design features single shell, pressed and bent teak slipper seats...

Set of 8 Wojciechów Thonet chairs. Original tags. Rare as a set of 8. Nice set of pre-war bentwood chairs signed Wojciechów, the first Polish bentwood furniture factory. It was foun...

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...

This set of eight vintage dining chairs was designed by Czech designer Antonin Šuman in the 1960s. The chairs have been completely restored, stained to chocolate brown color to even ...

1940s Kozelka & Kropacek Bentwood Armchairs in Texel Sheepskin – Mid-Century Czech icons, fully reupholstered in ultra-soft, long-lasting Dutch Texel sheepskin with dark brown patina...