Re-Editions: Between Zeitgeist and Timelessness
...Take Jil Sander, for example, who teamed up with Thonet to give Marcel Breuer's famous cantilever chair an elegant new look – celebrated above all in Milan...
Product type | Multi-purpose chair |
Dimensions | ![]() |
Weight | 7 kg |
Colours | Frame![]() Mesh ![]() ![]() |
Material | Frame: powder coated tubular steel Seat/Backrest: plastic mesh Glides: plastic, black Cushion covers: 100% acrylic Cushion stuffing: water permeable, quick drying foam with anti-microbial equipment |
Variants | Available with or without cushions Alternatively available as the S 34 N All Seasons with armrests With felt glides for hard floors on request |
Function & properties | The special Thonet Protect ® coating protects against the weather. UV-resistant Suitable for outdoor use |
Care | To clean, wiping with a damp cloth and a mild detergent is recommended. |
Certificates & Sustainability | ThonetProtect® coating salt spray tested (720 hours) according to DIN EN ISO 9227-NSS Thonet has declared sustainability to be a corporate principle. The manufacturer continuously optimizes all processes from production/technology, materials management and recyclability to transport routes and constantly pays attention to resource-saving energy and material consumption. Last but not least, social and ethical principles are among the top priorities. Thonet has been awarded the "Green Globe Certificate" for its measures of sustainable and environmentally friendly management - further information can be found here. |
Warranty | 24 months |
Product family | All Seasons Collection |
Datasheet | Click for more information (ca. 1,5 MB).![]() |
A Thonet cantilever chair is specially produced to allow a retrofitting with plastic glides (transparent or black) with or without felt insert using the pre-punched drill holes, add an additional 11 mm to the overall height and cost 29,- EUR per set / chair.On older cantilever models produced before 2010, the Thonet frames were pre-punched as standard and the glides are installed as follows: With a 4.2 mm drill (available at any hardware store or as the special-hardened Thonet drill bits for Euro) bore holes in the marked locations. The felt pads can then be attached using the supplied self-tapping screws.
Yes, then it is the S 34 N All Seasons.
...Take Jil Sander, for example, who teamed up with Thonet to give Marcel Breuer's famous cantilever chair an elegant new look – celebrated above all in Milan...
...The result is a collection of some 80 chairs at various locations throughout the Dessau Bauhaus building and in the foyer of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau; some 80 chairs composing a juxtaposition of licenced works through Knoll, Thonet and Tecta, including the B3 'Wassily' club chair by Marcel Breuer, the S533 R by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or the D4 by Marcel Breuer, of plagiarisms of those licensed works, and also of alternative interpretations of those licensed works by furniture retail chains such as Ikea or XXXLutz and designers such as Jasper Morrison... The latter a question also posed by the inclusion in Mehr als echt (More than real) of the S 43 cantilever chair by Mart Stam through Thonet, a work without question of importance in context of the (hi)story of furniture and of Functionalist Modernism, but a work, as with all works of Stam, that has as much to do with Bauhaus as this blog...
...In addition Ferdinand Kramer realised numerous furniture projects in cooperation with Thonet, most famously arguably being his B403 bentwood chair, while in context of his tenure at Frankfurt University Ferdinand Kramer designed, pretty much, all the furniture and furnishings... This process, which today is particularly important, is not only historically interesting: it alone explains the immense sales of the Thonet industry, and provides a very interesting reference for the further development of rationalisation in the furniture industry...
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