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Thonet No. 14: the benchmark for modern chairs
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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.
Collection Wolfgang Thillmann

THONET NO. 3
Design Michael Thonet, Peter Hubert Desvignes, ca 1847. Production Gebrüder Thonet, 1862-1865. Materials: curved beech wood, cane.
Collection MAK. Photo Nathan Murrell

THONET NO. 2
Design Michael Thonet. Production Michael Thonet & Söhne, Werkstatt Gumpendorf, Wien, ca 1850. Materials: bent beech wood, partly laminated, cane.
Collection Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum

THONET NO. 4
Design Michael Thonet, Wien, 1848-1849. Production Gebrüder Thonet, 1862-1865. Materials: curved beech wood, laminated and solid, cane.
Collection MAK/Photo Georg Mayer

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).
Collection MAK/Photo Georg Mayer

THONET NO. 14
Design Michael Thonet, ca 1856. Production The Royal House of Hanover. Materials Beech wood, cane.
Collection Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum

THONET NO. 14
Design Gebrüder Thonet, ca 1865. Production Gebrüder Thonet, Koritschan. Materials: Bent beech wood, solid, cane.
Collection Wolfgang Thillmann


Detail of the top end of the front leg with turned threading that screws it to the seat.
Courtesy of Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum

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.
Courtesy of Thillmann Collection
