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THONET

THONET
THONET
Thonet is one of the oldest family-run furniture manufacturers in the world and has been producing home and contract furniture of the highest quality since 1819. The courage to always try something new - with groundbreaking technologies and outstanding design - without forgetting the roots of the long company tradition has made Thonet famous around the world. All activities are characterized by the combination of form, function and aesthetics.

Company founder Michael Thonet made the breakthrough in 1859 with the iconic chair No. 14, the so-called Viennese coffee house chair: the innovative technology of bending solid beechwood made it possible to produce a chair industrially for the first time. The second important material in the Thonet range is tubular steel. In the 1930s, the company was the world's largest producer of the then-new tubular steel furniture, which was designed by famous Bauhaus architects such as Mart Stam, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. Today, Thonet's early tubular steel furniture and the first bentwood furniture are considered milestones in design history.

In the ongoing process of reinvention, the Thonet collection is constantly being expanded with new designs in addition to the bentwood and tubular steel classics in different variations and editions. To this end, the Frankenberg-based company works with well-known national and international designers - some of the furniture is also designed by the company's own Thonet Design Team.

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