An early printed Thonet Catalog. not very readable indeed.
This is the reason Thonet fascinates me: a Nineteenth Century globally operating compagny. Alas it fell apart, but parts of it still exist and its products have withstand time.
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Thonet Office Chairs
Thonet no. 2 Nest Egg by Harriet Goodall
Found the site Random Weaving of Harriet Goodall, an Australian based basket artist. She’s created 3 Thonet chairs with woven additions. This is one of them.
Engineering Temporality by Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen
Engineering Temporality, a mini collection of a cabinet and a chair, by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen is a tribute to human fragility. The project evolved from Tolvanen’s personal experience with his grandmother’s declining health due to Alzheimer’s:
“Her Alzheimer’s disease is unraveling the fabric of her life, knot by knot, and vaporizing the very core of her personality and life, her memories, and turning her into a shell of a human being.”
Tolvanen used tubular steel as the main ingredient of his creations, he then cut the tubes into small rings and joined them back together to form a semi-covering layer over existing objects. Then, he burnt them:
“My pursuit was to give an object a memory, create tension and stage a play between the perfect, anonymous mass produced structural material and the imperfect of human being. The shell that is left caresses the vanished object, the memory of it, referring to the past.”
Via designboom.com
Pablo Picasso in his Studio Villa “La Californie”
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) in his Thonet Rocking chair. Yes, that is his full name. Love him or hate him, just remember him.
via MONDOBLOGO: picasso in his studio villa "la californie".