Beech bentwood, Vienner wicker work, metal
Austria, c. 1900
Thonet – Bentwood manufactory, established in 1819 by Michael Thonet
With brand stamp 'Thonet'
Backrest adjustable in height and completely foldable
Dimensions: c. 116 x 143 x 68 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Belgian private collection

Condition:
The lounger is in good condition with usual signs of age and wear. The wattle is slighly loose in the area of the lying surface. Wood with usual signs of usage such as stress cracks and surface wear as well as little loss of material. The dimensions are c. 116 x 143 x 68 cm.

Thonet
The furniture company Thonet was established by Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and is family-owned to this day. Michael Thonet began to develop the production of furniture from mechanic to industrial manufacturing. For this purpose, he experimented with bentwood. In 1836 he acquired the Michelsmuehle, a glue factory in Boppard - but run into financial difficulties and had to close this establishment in 1841 and moved to Vienna with his family. There he opened an establishment of his own again in 1849 he named it “Gebrueder Thonet “. He achieved his breakthrough design with the Viennese bistro chair, also known as Chair No. 14 (1859). The chair was designed at the first Thonet factory, which opened in Koritchan, Moravia in 1859. Factories later opened in various German, French, and Austrian locations. There, the company employed new working procedures to standardize manufacturing, such as division of labor and movable parts that made chairs a relatively cheap mass product. The chair turned Thonet into an internationally successful business; the company produced and sold two million different objects in 1912. It had sale locations across Europe as well as in Chicago and New York. In the 1930s, tubular steel was added as a new material and Thonet produced designs by Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Even today, new designs in addition to the classics are produced in the company headquarters in Hessian Frankenberg. 

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