Rocking chairs by Thonet

Ludwig Kühn (1859-1936):
'Lady standing next to a Thonet Rocking Chair', 1905
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Thonet rocking chair, ca. 1910
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Michael Thonet (1776-171) was a German-Austrian cabinet maker.
Thonet began trying to make furniture out of glued and bent wooden
slats in the 1830s. Thonet's essential breakthrough was his success in
having light, strong wood bent into curved, graceful shapes by forming
the wood in hot steam. This enabled him to design entirely novel, elegant,
lightweight, durable and comfortable furniture, which appealed strongly
to fashion - a complete departure from the heavy, carved designs of the
past, and whose aesthetic and functional appeal remains to this day

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Women making the seats for Thonet's chairs
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This is the very first Thonet bentwood
rocking-chair, No. 1, ca. 1860
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Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902):
Young Woman in a Rocking Chair, study for the
painting 'The Last Evening', ca. 1873
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The Last Evening, ca. 1873
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Bentwood rocking chair No. 6, ca. 1873
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'Lady In The Rocking Chair'
by Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870–1905)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
'Woman in a Rocking Chair', a study
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Bentwood rocking chair, No. 4, ca. 1880

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Jean-Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940):
'Indoor Rocking Chair'

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photo by Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940):
'Misia and Thadee Natanson'

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August Borckmann (1827-1890):
'Tea on the Porch', 1889

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'Jacqueline sitting in a Rocking Chair', 1954

by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in his Thonet
rocking chair in his studio 'Villa La Californie'
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Picasso in 'Villa La Californie', Cannes 1957
photograph by Andre Villers

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From his bentwood rocking chair,
Picasso studies his latest portrait of Jacqueline.
'Villa La Californie', July 1957

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