Thonet Chairs in Art, etc.More Thonet chair sightings, in art, comics, magazine covers, etc.
|
||||
Title | Year | Artist | Image | Notes |
At the Moulin Rouge | 1892-1895 | Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec | ![]() |
Wikimedia Commons |
Historical Photo | 1906 | 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 |
Interior with Thonet Chair | ca 1908 | Sándor Galimberti | ![]() |
|
Interior with a Violin Case (Detail) | 1918-1919 | Henri Matisse | ![]() |
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. |
Paris Cafe | 1921 | Hulton Archive/Getty Images | 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. |
|
The Blue Lotus | 1934-1935 | Hergé (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. |
![]() ![]() |
Later, in a hospital, Thomson is sitting on a Thonet No. 14, the classic Vienna cafe chair. | |||
Femme Dans Un Rocking-Chair | 1956 | Pablo Picasso | ![]() |
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. |
Summer Ending | 2010 | Raimonda Jatkeviciute Kasparaviciene | ![]() |
This Lithuanian painter has done several paintings featuring Thonet chairs. This one is a Thonet No. 14. |
Taming Trump | 2016 | Barry Blitt |
![]() ![]() |
A Thonet No. 18 wielded by Kellyanne Conway Illustration by Barry Blitt for:
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). |
Copyright 2018 Stephen Hart |