Bentwood Chair

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We Tried It: Svan Baby-to-Booster Bentwood High Chair Who tried it: Rennie Dyball, Senior Editor Why she did it: Feeding her baby in a Bumbo seat wasn’t cutting it anymore and it was time to graduate to a real high chair. Pros: This attractive high chair Obscure works that students of design and collectors may find equally provocative include the British designer Gerald Summers' bent-plywood chair, devised in 1933-34 from a single sheet of laminated wood, and his 1935 bentwood tea trolley, two cylinders Used as a happy resting place by Picasso, Einstein and Stalin, the bentwood chair became the iconic mass produced chair of the 20th century, and the archetype for later flat-pack furniture, as Colin Bisset writes. Visit a cafe in any Western city and there Tadao Ando is like the concrete-whisperer: the Japanese architect has an unmatched talent for manipulating the everyday material to do pretty magical things. Dream Chair is one of his latest projects-a collaboration with Danish manufacturer Carl Hansen Staffan Holm capitalizes on new types of industrial bentwood to make a feather-light solid wood chair that would do Michael Thonet proud. In 1859, a French furniture maker named Michael Thonet introduced a marvelous new chair. The curvaceous No. 14 Chair Dream Chair is one of his latest projects—a collaboration with Danish manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son—that switches up his usual scale Paul Cocksedge's impossibly curved Poise table—but bentwood has incredibly surprising strength. .

The result is both beautiful in execution and timeless in design, much like the Vienna bentwood “chair of chairs” first produced in 1859 and subsequently manufactured in the tens of millions. Chairs and bicycles are very different things, of course. Because the process of making bentwood furniture requires that rods of wood be bent along the grain, it presented the perfect title for a new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. "Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture From the Collection of Fern and Austrian designer Robert Stadler has created a new bistro chair for Thonet, a brand famed for their bentwood chairs synonymous with cafe bent white oak to create a sculpture - watch it on Dezeen Screen. Photographs are by Constantin Meyer and Charles Q: About 10 years ago, my wife and I bought four cafe-style bentwood chairs marked "Mundus, made in Poland, fabrique en Pologne." There's a patent date, "Sept. 22, '14," on the metal leg brackets. The dark finish appears to be original. We paid about $100 .