Thonet Chairs in Art, etc.
More Thonet chair sightings, in art, comics, magazine covers, etc.
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Gamblers
Gamblers enjoying a game at the Faro table at the White Elephant Saloon in Bingham, Utah, 1906. The chair at the center looks like a Thonet No. 19 with a simple inner loop.
A Wild Bunch of drinkers The Daily Mail
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Matisse included Thonet chairs in other paintings as well, for example, Woman with Umbrella 1919-1920 and Les Persiennes 1919.
This is a Thonet No. 20.
Thonet No. 56 with later curved braces
French chef Auguste Escoffier, seen here at a cafe in 1921, helped to found the Ritz Hotel, where Ernest Hemingway was a longtime regular.
(Georges Remi)
Early in The Blue Lotus, In the Occidental Private Club, Thonet S 533 small armchairs, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Thonet in1927.
Picasso painted several variations, all based on his own Thonet rocking chair.
Bentwood Rocking Chairs includes images of another Picasso painting and a photo of Picasso in his Thonet Rocking chair. The page also includes several Thonet rocking chairs in other paintings.
This Lithuanian painter has done several paintings featuring Thonet chairs. This one is a Thonet No. 14.
Barry Blitt
A Thonet No. 18 wielded by Kellyanne Conway
Illustration by Barry Blitt for:
Taming Trump
By Ryan Lizza
The New Yorker
10/17/2016 issue
The illustration appears to be inspired by one or more of the many photos of Clyde Beatty taming lions. Most photos show him using a Thonet No. 18 (with the older circular leg brace).