Chair n.14 in Vienna straw

The seat has the attribution mark and the type 2 label, production estimated from 1885 until the end of the First World War as the type 3 label was used from the 1920s onwards. Michael Thonet the inventor of bent wood using an innovative technique the use of steam. The no. 14 was immediately characterized as the bistro chair, known as a café chair or Vienna chair. Minimalist for the use of the material and for the number of pieces that make it up, only six, it is the result of a technological research that lasted twenty years. The intent was to bend the solid wood giving it a sinuous and elegant shape, Thonet began to use steam at exactly 104 degrees for six hours.