bentwood - furniture
Bentwood. The Austrian bentwood furniture designed by Michael Thonet (1796-1871) was among the 19th century's most original contributions to furniture development. Thonet used the techniques of steam-bending and the pliable nature of beech wood to make chairs, tables, hallstands, cots and so on. The furniture was simple in form, light in weight, elegant and capable of being mass produced, so that bentwood furniture was exported to many parts of the world, including Australia, following its success at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Thonet chairs, and those made by his competitor Kohn, often have paper trade labels pasted on the inside seat rail. Thonet was not the first to apply the techniques of steam bending to furniture. It was used, for example, during the 18th century by the Windsor chair makers to construct bow back or hoop back chairs, and the arched crinoline stretchers but he was the first to exploit it on such a vast commercial scale.
21 item(s) found:
A 19th century Austrian bentwood folding chair, the elegant frame with scroll and ring supports to the sling arms, back and seat with floral self-patterned brocade in gold and lemon tones.
A child's bentwood chair with oval cane filled back. Fault, circa 1910. Height 61 cm
A set of four bentwood chairs with spindle backs
Ebonised beechwood bentwood American piano stool
A set of six oak and caned bentwood single chairs. (6)
A bentwood and caned rocking chair by Ligna, Czechoslovakia
A pair of bentwood open armchairs in beech and dusty pink velvet
An unusual set of eight thonet beech bentwood chairs including two elbow chairs, the backs with entwined bentwood scrolls surrounding oval caned panels and caned seats, raised on cabriole front legs and out thrust back legs, incised numbers to undersides,…
Antique bentwood towel rail European origin, 91 x 69 cm
Thonet, bentwood chaise, Austrian, ca.1890, continuous cane seat, back reclines. Length 187 cm
A Thonet bentwood occasional table, Austrian circa 1905, with original paper maker label and retailers labels for Sharks Furnishing Warehouse 22 Chapel Street Prahran. Height 78 cm. Diameter 49 cm
A Garth Chester Art Deco bentwood armchair with suspended shaped seat, hooped 'D' shape armrests, tubular stretchers, Art Deco claw feet. Note: old veneer repair, circa late 1930s. Length 61 cm. Depth 60 cm. Height 69 cm
A 'Buenos Aires' Suite By Josef Hoffmann, Model No.675 ebonised bentwood and red leather upholstery manufactured by J. & J. Kohn, Austria 76 cm high.…
Late Victorian bentwood desk chair in good clean detailed condition
Set of six bentwood, carved back chairs, by Fischel
Set of eight bentwood chairs with rattan seats and the original maker's label and stamp for 'J. J. Kohn Jacob & Josef Kohn Wien'
Alvan alto '406' armchair with a bentwood frame and a woven body
Bentwood armchair with a leather seat