LIECHTENSTEIN CHAIR

Design Michael Thonet, Peter Hubert Desvignes, ca 1843-1849. Production Gebrüder Thonet, Wien, 1844-1858. Materials: bent and carved rosewood, rod bundles, laminated and solid, front legs with beech wood core.

THONET NO. 3

Design Michael Thonet, Peter Hubert Desvignes, ca 1847. Production Gebrüder Thonet, 1862-1865. Materials: curved beech wood, cane.

THONET NO. 2

Design Michael Thonet. Production Michael Thonet & Söhne, Werkstatt Gumpendorf, Wien, ca 1850. Materials: bent beech wood, partly laminated, cane.

THONET NO. 4

Design Michael Thonet, Wien, 1848-1849. Production Gebrüder Thonet, 1862-1865. Materials: curved beech wood, laminated and solid, cane.

THONET NO. 1

Design Michael Thonet, Peter Hubert Desvignes, ca 1850. Production Gebrüder Thonet, Wien, 1858 ca. Materials: Beech wood, laminated and curved, glazed on rosewood, cane (rattan).

THONET NO. 14

Design Michael Thonet, ca 1856. Production The Royal House of Hanover. Materials Beech wood, cane.

THONET NO. 14

Design Gebrüder Thonet, ca 1865. Production Gebrüder Thonet, Koritschan. Materials: Bent beech wood, solid, cane.

The six pieces making up the chair.

Detail of the top end of the front leg with turned threading that screws it to the seat.

Bundles of thin square sections of wood for the front leg of the Liechtenstein. There is a colour difference between the beech core and the outer layers in more precious rosewood.