This past week it's been hard to escape images of a bentwood bike purporting to have been created by a London based artist for German furniture manufacturer Thonet. We choose not to run the story. Something about it troubled us from the beginning. The fact that only computer generated, rendered, images were available, for example. Plus knowing what we know about Thonet, it just didn't make sense. Didn't feel like Thonet. Wasn't right. And now the confirmation from Frankenberg, it's all a
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If Christmas is a time for family, then Christmas is also surely a time to buy your gifts from a family business. Currently being run by the 5th generation, Thonet have not only been responsible for the introduction and development of bent wood and steel tube furniture - two of the most important genres in the history of furniture design - but continue to support and develop young designers and so may just also discover the next big genre..... Thonet S 333 by Holger Lange Back in February
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