Thonet Chairs in Movies

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Title	Year	Artist	Image	Notes
Johann Strauss II at the Court Ball	1888	Theo Zasche		Wikimedia Commons
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” A Wild Bunch of drinkers Daily Mail (UK) Original higher-resolution image courtesy of the Utah Historical Society.
Historical Photo	1906	Gamblers		Detail The chair appears to be in the Thonet No. 19 group, with the upper inner loop shaped like the No. 14.
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 chairs, 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 of Tintin and the Picaros 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. On page 58, two empty Thonet No. 18 chairs are shown, recently occupied by Thompson and Thomson.
The Broken Ear	1943	Hergé (Georges Remi)		Tintin conversing with Don José Trujillo. The chairs are Thonet B 34 armchairs.
Bad Time at Honda	1947	Robert Fawcett, Illustrator		The film Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955, was based on a 1947 short story Bad Time at Honda in The American Magazine written by Howard Breslin and illustrated by Robert Fawcett.
Bad Time at Honda	1947	Robert Fawcett, Illustrator		Detail The three chairs in the foreground are Thonet No. 18. Wikipedia
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.
Thonet Chair and Carpet	1991	Avigdor Arikha		Thonet Chair and Carpet, by Avigdor Arikha, 1991 This is a Thonet No. 4, designed by Michael Thonet in 1849 for Café Daum in Vienna. From Wikiart
Summer Ending	2010	Raimonda Jatkeviciute Kasparaviciene		This Lithuanian painter has created 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 performing with lions. Most photos show him using a Thonet No. 18 (with the older circular leg brace), possibly because he could get his arm through the back and handle the chair with one arm.
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Thonet Chairs Extras