Thonet Chair Café Daum (no 4)

Thonet Chair Café Daum (no 4)

Inspecting old posts here on the blog results in many new posts. Here is the Thonet Chair Café Daum. Still available at Thonet Australia

Designer: Thonet
Finishes Walnut and Dark Oak
Dimensions in mm H 890, D 550, W 420 Seat H 460
Thonets first independent commission in 1849, resulted in this design for the Café Daum in Vienna. Today it is
recognised as the quintessential society cafe chair. European beech frame, beech ply seat. Seat pad an option.

That’s nice. Isn’t it?
However, whenever you are looking for a Thonet chair, you shouldn’t forget to check the sites of the connoisseurs. I checked the German language site of Swiss Thonet specialist Dieter Staedeli. Currently he has this photo of a Thonet no 4:


and has following observation:

The chair Thonet designed for Café Daum which became became the Thonet no 4 later didn’t have additional leg stabilization

Now I’m a bit confused: I see two differences: The leg stabilisation and the form of the seat. Which in the Staedeli photo is made of two round bentwood parts. Also it misses the additional seat-back stabilisator….

Pink Electric Chair by Ivan Navarro


Pink electric chair by Ivan Navarro, 2006

Pink fluorescent light bulbs, painted aluminium and electrical fixtures. This work is from an edition of three.

ESTIMATE £15,000-20,000

SOLD AT £34,850

PROVENANCE Roebling Hall, New York

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Pair of Skeleton stools by Alex Roskin, 2006

Pair of Skeleton stools by Alex Roskin, 2006

Rosewood, bronze (2). One: 16 1/4 x 28 3/4 x 28 in. (41.3 x 73 x 71.1 cm); the other: 17 1/2 x 28 x 21 1/4 in. (44.5 x 71.1 x 54 cm).

ESTIMATE $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Impression Chair by Julian Mayor


Impression Chair by Julian Mayor, 2005

Plywood, painted wood. 27 in. (68.6 cm) high. From the edition of 20. Back leg incised with “Julian Mayor.”

ESTIMATE $3,000-5,000

LITERATURE The Sunday Review, The Independent on Sunday, September 21, 2003, front cover

Via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Richard Hutten in Design Museum Gent

Richard Hutten exposition in Design Museum Gent (Belgium)

After the White Book Chairs Installation in Italy now see Richard Hutten in his stacked books chair in Gent, Belgium.

Richard Hutten, Design Museum Gent

18 years of playing

February 26 – June 6, 2010

Richard Hutten (born 1967) is one of the most well-known and most unconventional Dutch designers. He graduated in 1991 at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and fairly quickly garnered international recognition.
In his own design studio he produced designs for furniture, products, interiors and exhibitions.
Hutten is a conceptual designer but his designs are highly functional, each and every one of them. Often the object will even have multiple functions.
Design museum Gent gives Hutten the assignment to give shape to the exhibition himself. The result will certainly show this, and will be telling of the convincing and typical style of Hutten.

Via Design Art News.