By way of a 1st of May, International Workers' Day, special...... in Milan Ronan Bouroullec told us that the brother's new chair Uncino for Italian produce Mattiazzi was inspired by and loosely based on the very first wooden office chairs. An excellent example of what he meant can currently be enjoyed at the exhibition Sitting – Lying – Swinging. Furniture from Thonet at the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts, Leipzig. A comparison: Uncino by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Mattiazzi vs. an 1875
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Standing in the Leipzig Grassi Museum for Applied Arts, surrounded by 150 years of Thonet chair history, Peter Thonet, x-times-great grandson of company founder Michael Thonet and until his recent retirement company CEO, is clearly a very satisfied man, "It makes one proud to be able to look back on a collection of objects that have not only been important for the company, but which have also, occasionally, written design history" Few visiting the new Grassi Museum exhibition "Sitting – Lying
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