S 43 Steel tube classic cantilever chair beech CHROME/NATURAL Thonet PREFERRED COMBINATION

Beautifully designed: S 43 steel tube classic cantilever chair by Thonet

Designer Mart Stam focuses on straightforwardness in form, aesthetic construction and seating comfort in all his furniture designs.  In the S 43 model, the tubular steel frame was combined with a molded plywood shell for the seat and back.  The rocking effect significantly increases seating comfort.

The clear, understated form of the S 43 by Mart Stam for Thonet makes this cantilever chair an exemplary design in the spirit of modernism.

Thonet – 200 years of tradition

The Frankenberg-based manufacturer stands for continuity and an unbridled drive for innovation . Thonet was the first manufacturer to bring bentwood furniture to market and to distribute tubular steel furniture . Michael Thonet founded his own workshop in Boppard on the Rhine in 1819. In the 1830s, he experimented with veneer strips boiled in glue and is therefore considered the inventor of "furniture made of bent wood." In 1842, he was invited to Vienna by the Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, and the coffeehouse culture there laid the foundation for Thonet's later success. Given this drive for innovation, it is no surprise that Thonet also maintained connections to the Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer. Thonet implemented Breuer's experiments with cold-bent tubular steel and produced the well-known cantilever chairs.

Material and format

The chair consists of a  Steel tube frame and a seat made of molded plywood.  It is 44 cm wide, 53 cm deep, and 82 cm high. The seat height is 46 cm.

Version:

• Frame: chrome
• Set: Natural beech TP17