Chair N .14 by Michael Thonet for Thonet, curved beech cane seat, Austria, circa 1859

Price per unit Dimensions : - Width: 43 cm - Seat width: 40 cm - Depth: 56 cm - Seat depth: 40 cm - Height: 90 cm - Seat height: 46 cm Designer: Michael Thonet Publisher: Thonet Materials: Curved beech, cane Provenance: Austria, Vienna (Wien) Thonet chair N 14 : As one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the world, the family company Thonet has been producing furniture of exceptional quality for the home and public sector since 1819. In its unchangeable will to dare to be new with innovative technologies and outstanding design, the Thonet company does not however forget the heritage of a long tradition that has made it known throughout the world. In 1859, company founder Michael Thonet first industrialised furniture production in 1859 by using a new technology for bending solid beech wood to produce chair no. 14, now known as the "bistro chair". In the 1930s, the company became the world's largest producer of tubular steel furniture, the second most important material at Thonet and new at the time. The furniture is designed by renowned Bauhaus architects such as Mart Stam, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. The tubular steel classics and the first bentwood furniture from Thonet are nowadays a benchmark in the history of design.