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Chair · Austria
Dining Chair
Theophil Hansen · Austria · c. 1870
While architect and interior designer Theophil Hansen incorporated classical elements into his furniture designs, he also embraced contemporary advances in manufacturing, including the use of steam to bend solid and laminated wood, as seen in the curved forms of this chair's back. Laminated bentwood furniture is most closely associated with the Viennese firm Gebrüder Thonet, the first manufacturers to produce bentwood on an industrial scale.
— Art Institute of Chicago, catalogue text
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