Set of 2 chairs Bistro thonet

2 authentic canned Bistro chairs, signed 20th beginning Thonet. The famous Bistro Chair is today still regarded as the most successful in the world industrial product. Its production is based on a new technique at the time, the curving of the solid wood, or bending, a technique that Michael Thonet developed in the 1850s and which will make it possible to serial production. To sell the chairs, characterized by an aesthetic clarity. MICHAEL THONET Michael Thonet, the inventor of curved wooden furniture, also laid the Foundation of their manufacturing. Born in 1796 in Boppard on the Rhine, he created his own workshop in 1819. In 1842, the Prince de Metternich will be coming to Vienna. In 1849, Thonet with his sons founded a company that will soon be a great international success and rapid expansion. At the time, factories in the current Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia produce wooden curved annually more than 865 000 chairs. After the death of Michael Thonet in 1871 in Vienna, his sons will resume the company's management.

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