Furniture

Classic Layout: Thonet's Bistro Seat

Michael Thonet, a 19th century German cabinet-maker-turned-powerful seat designer, developed the foundation for so a lot of the seat frameworks and shapes we are comfortable with now — whether they are out-and-out, or replicas, inspired by Thonet’s layouts copies. Thonet created a special steam-bending procedure in the 1850s that revolutionized design and mass-production, enabling straightforward …