Thonet Chairs ExtrasMore Thonet chair sightings, in art, comics, magazine covers, etc.
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Artist |
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Johann Strauss II at the Court Ball |
1888 |
Theo Zasche |
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At the Moulin Rouge |
1892-1895 |
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec |
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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. |
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Detail The chair appears to be in the Thonet No. 19 group, with the upper inner loop shaped like the No. 14. |
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Interior with Thonet Chair |
ca 1908 |
Sándor Galimberti |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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The Blue Lotus |
1934-1935 |
Hergé |
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Early in The Blue Lotus, in the Occidental Private Club, Thonet S 533 chairs, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Thonet in1927. |
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Later, in a hospital, Thomson is sitting on a Thonet No. 14, the classic Vienna café chair. |
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Tintin and the Picaros |
1976 |
Hergé |
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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 |
Tintin conversing with Don José Trujillo. The chairs are Thonet B 34 armchairs. |
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Bad Time at Honda |
1947 |
Robert Fawcett, Illustrator |
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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. |
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Detail The three chairs in the foreground are Thonet No. 18. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Summer Ending |
2010 |
Raimonda Jatkeviciute Kasparaviciene |
This Lithuanian painter has created several paintings featuring Thonet chairs. This one is a Thonet No. 14. |
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Taming Trump |
2016 |
Barry Blitt |
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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 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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