Bentwood (Thonet)
曲木家具（トーネット） / 1859– / Technique / Furniture and Interiors
Thonet's chair No. 14 reduced steam-bent beech to a few parts: the first industrial furniture, shipped knocked-down and mass-produced — rational components and elegant curves at once, often called design's point of origin.
Steam-bent curves / Reduction to few parts / Knock-down shipping / Lightness and mass production
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Michael Thonet / six parts and ten screws / its adoption by Le Corbusier