Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
We’ve featured the new retro Lui5 of Philippe Bestenheider for the Italian Boffi Brothers earlier, but not the golden one. Since one of our contributors has a Golden Blog, we are always on the look out for golden chairs. Philippe is redoing his site. So I’ll link to his FaceBook page for the time being.
Thonet no 1. Chair in The Vienna MAK Museum.
My first discovery of Thonet was in Vienna at the Kohlmarkt in the 70ies. Then Thonet Brothers Austria was a separate entity and had a posh interior shop there. Since then Thonet Brothers Austria had been acquired by the Italian furniture company Poltrona Frau, but Poltrona didn’t do a lot with it. It almost burried Thonet.
In Februari, 2013, in an article in the Austrian Die Presse I’ve read Thonet would come back to Vienna.
The place where Thonet was expected to open shop is Stilwerk which may be translated as Style Factory, an organization that offers four exclusive design centers in Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Vienna to offer luxury interior design, design products and lifestyle accessories a presentation platform under one roof.
However, looking at the Stilwerk site for Vienna, the Vienna Thonet Showroom is not shown there, whereas Ton is represented in Stilwerk….It seems the plans fell through. Too bad.
This was a photo that went with the article. Nice display i would say.
Actually I know there is at least one Thonet related person in our mailing list. Could he or she chime in here?
kathleenetrujillo:
Charles Pollock Sling Chairs
designt:
Hiroshima Folding Chair by Naoto Fukasawa (for Maruni)
How’s this for an iron throne, minimal enough for the modern home? Or castle?
http://www.completehome.com.au/Be-Inspired/Tips—-Trends/7-designer-dining-chairs