https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet Find out what made MICHAEL THONET an important/influential designer. How did he inspire others? en-us 2016-02-22 11:23:10 UTC 2025-09-30 08:35:59 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.cimmermann.uk/media/catalog/category/michael_thonet.1426933521.jpg https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96423514 Michael was a designer specialising in bentwood]]> 2016-02-22 14:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96423514 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96424412 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.]]> 2016-02-22 14:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96424412 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425565  His first success was the Bopparder Schichtholzstuhl (Boppard layerwood chair) in 1836. ]]> 2016-02-22 14:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425565 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425634 Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture]]> 2016-02-22 14:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425634 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425693 In 1855, Thonet invented a way bending solid pieces of wood, by using a long metal strip to aid the bending process. ]]> 2016-02-22 14:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96425693 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96426038 Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian cabinet make. He is known for inventing Bentwood


]]> 2016-02-22 14:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96426038 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96426410 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.]]> 2016-02-22 14:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96426410 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96678103 the bending of solid wood that Michael Thonet perfected during the 1850s, enabled mass production. adding new and simple aesthetics and a low price,]]> 2016-02-23 12:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96678103 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96679792 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.]]> 2016-02-23 12:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96679792 peter79 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96680635 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.]]> 2016-02-23 13:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96680635 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96680979 2016-02-23 13:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96680979 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96955856 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMRkM_BeQd8&list=PLB7z0txI2LIoQnitUwqD5Lv9QCSbWj58E  useful link, look at it!]]> 2016-02-24 12:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96955856 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96956160 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTNkdM7nSTM&list=PLB7z0txI2LIoQnitUwqD5Lv9QCSbWj58E&index=2  How they make it!!]]> 2016-02-24 12:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/96956160 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97495790 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.]]> 2016-02-26 10:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97495790 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499567 he inspired others with his fine woodworking on bending wood]]> 2016-02-26 10:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499567 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499780 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.

]]> 2016-02-26 10:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499780 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499873 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.]]> 2016-02-26 10:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/97499873 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/98021143 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 ]]> 2016-02-29 20:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/98021143 https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/98842217 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.]]> 2016-03-03 17:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lhourican/michaelthonet/wish/98842217