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Thonet was the son of master tanner Franz Anton Thonet of Boppard. Following a carpenter's apprenticeship, Thonet set himself up as an independent cabinetmaker in 1819.

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Micheal Thonet's design using bentwood revolutionized the woodwork industry. This new bent wood design made many people fall in love with this chair, and so this influenced more designers to incorporate this into their design to make theirs more wanted

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http://www.michael-thonet.com/
Michael Thonet was born in Boppard in 1796, the son of a tanner. After serving an apprenticeship in cabinet-making, Michael Thonet established a cabinet-making workshop in Boppard in 1819.

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Michael Thonet,  (born July 2, 1796,Boppard, Trier [Germany]died March 3, 1871,Vienna ), German-Austrian pioneer in the industrialization of furniture manufacture, whose experiments in the production of bentwood furniture  widely influenced both contemporary and modern styles and whose functional and exquisitely designed chairs are still being manufactured.

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he inspired others with his fine woodworking on bending wood

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he's been involved in all the most important developments in modern design. It survived the upheavals of both world wars although it was dissolved several times.
Thonet Bros (his company). had branches in nearly all large European cities as well as in Russia and the US.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTNkdM7nSTM&list=PLB7z0txI2LIoQnitUwqD5Lv9QCSbWj58E&index=2  How they make it!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMRkM_BeQd8&list=PLB7z0txI2LIoQnitUwqD5Lv9QCSbWj58E  useful link, look at it!

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Michael Thonet (1796-1871), born in Germany, was a designer specialising in 'bentwood'. This is furniture manufactured from veneers of natural woods, normally beech. Beech was selected by Thonet, as he found that it was much less likely to split than other natural woods.

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Michael Thonet was a far sighted designer who predicted the necessary moment of products into a globalised economy and designed his products accordingly. They could be transported in container ships if necessary and thereby could be manufactured cheaply and sold to the necessary market.

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In 1855, Thonet invented a way bending solid pieces of wood, by using a long metal strip to aid the bending process. This was the break through in technology by Thonet had been looking for. In 1859 the  No 14 Chair, was manufactured for the first time, using this technology.

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the bending of solid wood that Michael Thonet perfected during the 1850s, enabled mass production. adding new and simple aesthetics and a low price,

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After serving an apprenticeship in cabinet-making, Michael Thonet established a cabinet-making workshop in Boppard in 1819. Around 1830 Michael Thonet began to experiment with bending battens that had been cut and laminated, thus inventing the Boppard laminated wood chair.

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Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian cabinet make. He is known for inventing Bentwood

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In 1855, Thonet invented a way bending solid pieces of wood, by using a long metal strip to aid the bending process.

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Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture

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His first success was the Bopparder Schichtholzstuhl (Boppard layerwood chair) in 1836.

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Michael Thonet was born in Germany and was a designer which was specialised in using bentwood. the wood he chose to use was beech wood because it was less likely to split.

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Michael was a designer specialising in bentwood