Bentwood
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Bentwood objects are made by wetting wood, then bending it and letting it harden into curved shapes and patterns.
No. 14 chair
Cradle by Gebrüder Thonet (c. 1870)
A red cedar Tsimshian bentwood box dating from the 1880s, on display at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
Gebrüder Thonet
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Gebrüder Thonet or the Thonet Brothers was a European furniture manufacturer. Three firms descended from the original company remain active today, in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.
Bentwood
…cafe chairs, and other light furniture. The iconic No. 14 chair (also known as the "Vienna chair"), developed in the 1850s in the Austrian Empire by Thonet, is a well-known design based on the technique. The process is in widespread use for making casual and informal furniture of all types, particularly…
Thonet chairs Wien museum Karlplatz
Thonet-exhibition
Thonet rocking chair