Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 8 objects involving Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet

Child's Chair And Tray (Austria), ca. 1900

Child's Chair And Tray (Austria), ca. 1900
bent wood, caning, metal.
1989-111-1-a,b

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Curvilinear, bentwood side chair with curved front legs, straight rear legs; roughly square shaped caned seat, and curving back with sinuous, "heart"-shaped bentwood elements.

Chair (Austria), late 19th–early 20th century
wood (bent), caning.
Gift of John Sailer.
1982-55-1

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Curvilinear, laminated bentwood frame, the back elements shaped into one circular and two elliptical loops; circular caned seat; circular stretcher below seat; the four legs curving out at feet.

No. 19 Side Chair, ca. 1860
bent wood, caning.
Museum purchase through gift of Erskine Hewitt and various donors.
1969-133-2

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Bentwood armchair with caned seat, two scrolling armrests, circular "stretcher" and four tapered legs. Armrests on each side terminate in scrolls.

Armchair (Austria), ca. 1860
bent beechwood, caning.
Gift of Thonet Industries, Inc..
1971-19-1

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Settee with curved bent beachwood elements: the back composed of a wide frame enclosing two horizontal scrolling elements with an oval element in the lower center; single scrolled arm at either side with narrow, flat armrest at top; the wide caned seat on four tapering legs, the two front legs slightly out-turned; oval stretcher joined to all four legs slightly below seat.

No. 8 Bench, mid-19th century
bent beech wood, caning.
Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers.
1969-103-1

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Frame of curving linear bent beechwood elements; the arms flow into two long parallel runners; caned, oval back joined to elongated oval bent wood element, in turn joined to caned seat supported on the runners by four intertwined circular bentwood form; two curving bentwood supports join lower back to runners.

No. 4 Rocking Chair, ca. 1860
bent beechwood, woven caning.
Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers.
1969-103-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Ebonized wood form composed of rectangular seat up-curved at ends mounted on curving four-leged base with horizontal black stretchers between legs.

Stool (Austria), ca. 1920
bent wood.
The Linda and Irwin R. Berman Stool Collection.
2013-50-30

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cantilevered one-piece ribbon-like form of natural brown laminated plywood, the front of base and top of back with arc-shaped edges; sides of seat bent slightly upwards; front feet slightly raised.

Model 275 S Chair, Designed 1956, manufactured 1966
laminated, molded and stained plywood.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2017-7-1

This object was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet and A. Sommer.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.