Thonet Chairs in Movies

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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		Wikimedia Commons
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.
Man Test Laboratory	1919	National Archives and Records Administration		Soldiers testing gas masks at the American University Experiment Station. The chairs are Thonet No. 18 with the old-style circular leg brace. Public domain photo from the National Archives and Records Administration. Cropped to highlight Thonet Chairs
Paris Café	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.
The Blue Lotus	1934-1935	Hergé (Georges Remi)		Later, in a hospital, Thomson is sitting on a Thonet No. 14, the classic Vienna café chair.
Tintin and the Picaros	1976	Hergé (Georges Remi)		The coatstand Hergé illustrated on page 18 is very similar to a Thonet Kleiderstock No. 4 and the Café Daum Kleiderstock. It’s a bit odd in the setting, a modern hotel room with modern furniture.
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. See more on Fine Art America.
Taming Trump	2016	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).
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Thonet Chairs in Art, etc.