How to furnish your rooms with a Thonet chair? Classic and timeless design objects Thonet chairs represent fascinating historical furniture. The original Thonet chairs have their roots in the 19th century, the century that saw the birth of the famous Viennese chairs.
With modern Thonet chairs we have come to the present day with furniture that never loses its charm and continues to be loved and appreciated.
Let's see how to complete the furnishing of your room by creating the right harmony with wooden Thonet chairs. In contemporary design there are many proposals for furniture and furnishings that can be combined with these timeless chairs.
The fascinating history of the Thonet chair began in the first half of the 19th century in Prussia and in Boppard to be precise. The name can be attributed to its creator, Michael Thonet, an Austro-Hungarian cabinetmaker engaged in great research aimed at creating a particularly integral and robust chair.
The cabinetmaker's research focused in particular on identifying a method capable of bending the wood, while at the same time keeping it in the desired shape. There were many experiments conducted by Thonet before his success: during 1830 the cabinetmaker discovered that damp wood was able to maintain its curvature if dried slowly with the help of a heat source. This is how the sophisticated technique of working and bending wood was born.
The wood bending technique was perfected over the years by Thonet himself, until the year of the cabinetmaker's entrepreneurial turning point: in 1859 the Thonet n.14 model was born, the masterpiece chair that we know and still appreciate today.
The model n.14 was conceived and conceived for a refined and elegant bar that was to open in the city of Vienna: the famous Thonet chair entered into society in the Cafè Daum in Vienna, becoming over the years a true icon of style and design on an international level.
The main feature of the Thonet chair is its great elegance and refinement which are expressed in the simplicity of this model, characterised by minimalist shapes applied to natural materials.
The seat is made with the aid of natural straw, which gives life to a perforated texture that perfectly matches the curved wooden frame. The four legs are extremely thin and slightly curved.
The key to the great success of the Thonet chair is certainly to be found in its harmonious simplicity and minimalism with great personality and class. Another distinctive element of a Thonet chair is the great simplicity of assembly of the furniture: only six pieces are held together by a number of ten screws, creating an extremely solid and resistant chair. This model of chair was the first to form a single piece with the back legs.
By preparing a Thonet type chair inside your rooms, you will give your spaces an aura of elegance and classic sophistication. Lightness and simplicity of a Thonet chair are the highest expression of Art Noveau.
You will be able to prepare this chair with the right expedients in every room of your home, bringing a great piece of history into it. The Thonet chairs can be placed inside the kitchen space, the veranda, or even inside an attic or dining room conceived with a typically vintage design and style.
Today it is possible to find many models of Thonet type chairs on the market: you can buy coloured, cheap Thonet chairs or you can decide to choose a Thonet chair with armrests. Here are some of the best Thonet chairs available on the market.
Linz Type Thonet Chair is the perfect example of the great expression of the modern charm of a chair that never goes out of fashion. How to fit this chair into your environment? Thanks to its great lightness and simplicity and its dense Art Nouveau curved line, Sedia Linz can be arranged in every room: from the kitchen to the veranda, from the living room to the attic. This model of Thonet type chair fits perfectly into vintage and shabby chic environments (link to shabby style article).
Linz Chair Type Thonet is a Made in Italy product perfect to be prepared also in the context of a restaurant, bar, or even a canteen, cafeteria or hot and cold table. The chair has a frame made of steel tube with a diameter of 25 mm, painted with black thermosetting powders. The seat is made of snap-on polypropylene, imitating Vienna straw, with a black ring.
Another really interesting and perfect model to be inserted in any environment is Sedia Vienna Nero Tipo Thonet: also in this case it is a 100 per 100 Made in Italy furniture, perfect not only for any domestic environment, but also to be prepared in the context of a restaurant, bar, bistro or even a canteen or a garage.
The structure of the furniture consists of a steel tube with a diameter of 25 mm, painted with black thermosetting powders. The seat is made of polypropylene imitating Vienna straw with a black ring. The minimum order quantity for this product is 4 units.
This furniture is also available in the version Vienna Red Type Thonet Chair.
