Michael Thonet No. 14 Bentwood Chair by Ton (Upholstered)

The Michael Thonet designed  No. 14 Bentwood Chair is perhaps the most famous chair of all time.  The No. 14 Bentwood Chair's simple elegance and modest creation from a handful of bentwood pieces have become legendary worldwide.  This No. 14 is manufactured at a factory utilizing handcraft techniques originated by Michael Thonet.  The  No. 14 Bentwood Chair was originally created in Thonet Boppard, Germany workshop in 1855.  The mass production of the Michael Thonet-designed bentwood No. 14 Bentwood Chair has just celebrated its 150th year of manufacturing.   In the 1830s, Michael Thonet started experiments with bent veneers in an effort to reduce the number of separate pieces of wood being used in chairs.  These early techniques were successful in reducing the number of pieces in bentwood chairs from 10 to 5.  Further reduction became the focal point of Michael Thonet's work. In the 1840s Michael Thonet began experimenting with furniture made by bending wood that had been steamed into