Thonet

Thonet is the German furniture maker behind some of the most widely used chairs ever produced. Its history begins with cabinetmaker Michael Thonet, who opened a workshop in Boppard on the Rhine in 1819, moved to Vienna and founded his company there in 1849, renaming it Gebrüder Thonet in 1853.

In 1859 the company presented chair No. 14, today 214, the Vienna Coffee House Chair, whose bent solid beech wood allowed an almost industrial production and carried Thonet furniture into cafés, hotels and ballrooms across Europe. From 1930 Thonet also produced Marcel Breuer’s tubular steel designs, among them the S 32 and S 64, and it still makes bentwood and tubular steel classics alongside contemporary collections for home, office, hospitality and events.