THONET AND DESIGN

From a one-man business to a global enterprise: published to accompany a major exhibition at The New Collection in Munich, this book reflects on 200 years of furniture design as illustrated by the history of family company Thonet. The ground-breaking achievements of the early period – new technologies, new design methods, new distribution and marketing channels – are juxtaposed with developments in the 20th and early 21st centuries. (...)