Product description
BENT SOLID BEECH WOOD, LEATHER, CANE
411/4 IN. (105 CM) HIGH
LITERATURE:
GEBRÜDER THONET, THONET BENTWOOD & OTHER FURNITURE. THE 1904 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, VIENNA (REPUBL. NEW YORK, 1980), P. 52, NR. 1
ALEXANDER VON VEGESACK, THONET CLASSIC FURNITURE IN BENT WOOD AND TUBULAR STEEL, NEW YORK, 1997, PP. 75 AND 111
DEREK E. OSTERGARD, ED., BENT WOOD AND METAL FURNITURE: 1850-1946, NEW YORK, 1987, P. 49, FIGS. 2-19; CAT. NO. 29, P. 228
PETER AND CHARLOTTE FIELL, 1000 CHAIRS, COLOGNE, 2000, P. 48
THE ROCKING CHAIR - AN ANGLO-AMERICAN INVENTION OF UNCERTAIN PARENTAGE - REMAINED SOMETHING OF AN ALIEN CONCEPT IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF 19TH CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY. NEVERTHELESS, THONET, AN INNOVATOR IN THE MANIPULATION OF MATERIALS AND PRODUCTION METHODOLOGY APPARENTLY INTRODUCED HIS FIRST ROCKING CHAIR IN THE EARLY 1860S. IT APPEARED IN THE SALES CATALOGUES AS MODEL NO. 1 WITH A BASIC DESIGN SIMILAR TO THE EARLY BOPPARD CHAIRS IN THAT THE SEAT AND THE BACKREST CONNECT TWO SIDE COMPONENTS THAT ARE SHARPLY CURVED IN A SINGLE PLANE. THE BACKSWEPT SCROLLS OF THE RUNNERS, SUPPORTS AND ARMS COMBINE INTO A DISTINCTIVE ARRANGEMENT OF DETAILS THAT SUGGESTS MOVEMENT EVEN WHEN THE PIECE IS STATIONARY.