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 | Armchair |
Dimensions | ![]() |
Weight | 14 kg |
Colours | Classic version:![]() ![]() Pure Materials version: ![]() ![]() |
Material | Frame: tubular steel, chrome plated Seat/Backrest: buffalo leather, brown or butt leather, black, natural (full grain) Armrest panels: walnut oiled or stained beech Glides: plastic, black |
Variants | Available in classic leather or Pure Material's (buffalo leather). |
Delivery includes | With plastic glides, felt glides for hard floors available on request |
Care | To treat stains, use a damp cloth and, if necessary, a mild, neutral detergent. Please also refer to the brochure included with the delivery Note: As a natural product, all leathers of the Pure Materials collection react with characteristic traces of wear and gradually develop an individual and exclusive look. |
Certificates & Sustainability | 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 details can be found here. |
Warranty | 24 months |
Accessories | Complimenting S 35 LH footstool available separately. |
Datasheet | Click for more information (ca. 20 MB).![]() |
...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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