Curve e Biondi Riccioli Viennesi. Mobili in Faggio Curvato Da Michael Thonet ad Antonio Volpe Renzi Giovanna Renzi Chiara Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale 2000 24x30cm Italian pp. 320, 205 ill. b/n, 160 ill. col., hardback
Italian book on Austrian and Italian bentwood furniture including reproductions of a Thonet 1881 catalogue and the important J &J Kohn catalogue of 1907 plus the supplement which includes works by Josef Hoffmann Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner amongst others plus a Fischel catalogue from 1910.
Blurb from the publisher below:
When around 1830 Michael Thonet began the production of furniture using, at least for the embellishment of individual parts, the method of bending wood by means of steam, a new style of woodworking was initiated, which soon met the taste of many and whose diffusion subsequently represented a worldwide phenomenon, particularly between the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The volume retraces the entrepreneurial adventure of Thonet, who will transform his first small carpentry workshop into a company made up of around six thousand men operating in four factories and twenty-two shops and which will conquer the market thanks to the continuous search for the limitation of manufacturing costs. production, in order to offer quality products to an increasingly large number of consumers.
Condition: As new with slight shelf wear and curling to dust jacket.
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