Thonet Art Nouveau

Thonet Bentwood Chairs Austrian

Original Thonet

Polish Bentwood

Thonet 20th

Vienna 1880

Bentwood Thonet Coat Rack

Materials

Bentwood

Thonet Art Nouveau Rocking Chair, Black Lacquered Beech, Wicker Seat

$1,801

Thonet Art Nouveau Rocking Chair, Black Lacquered Beech, Wicker Seat

Located in Amsterdam, NL

Stunning and elegant Art Nouveau rocking chair. Design by Thonet, Kohn or Mundus but no marks or labels!

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Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Rocking Chairs

Materials

Wicker, Beech, Bentwood

$2,240Sale Price|20% Off

Illustrated Thonet Chair

By Thonet

Located in Antwerp, BE

Thonet armchair with a printed illustration. The seat and backrest are weaved in rattan. The rest of the frame is covered in a print that could have influenced by the great Fornase...

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Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Armchairs

Materials

Materials

Metal

Unavailable

H 35.44 in W 43.31 in D 21.66 in

Rocking Chair N°1 by Thonet

By Thonet

Located in Brussels, BE

Bentwood rocking chair Model N°1 designed in 1860 for Thonet. This authentic piece is finished with an ivory lacquer and reupholstered with a white colored long hair lamb fur.

Materials

Beech

Unavailable

H 32.29 in W 16.54 in D 16.54 in

past Creates Future/ Contemporized Thonet Chair by Markus Friedrich Staab

By Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH

Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE

Classic Thonet Chair contemporized by Markus Friedrich Staab, additianal feet added, hand-painted seat multi-lacquered. I learn out of a past that has been created for me, a found...

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Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Side Chairs

Materials

Materials

Brass

Parchment, Brass and Glass Table Lamp by Diego Mardegan for Glustin Luminaires

$7,508 / item

H 39.38 in W 9.85 in D 31.5 in

Parchment, Brass and Glass Table Lamp by Diego Mardegan for Glustin Luminaires

By Diego Mardegan

Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF

Ventola table lamp by the artist Diego Mardegan exclusively for Glustin Luminaires. Beautiful two ways shade made of a brass structure, parchemin paper and waxed fabric hold by an...

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2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon

$8,484 / set

$390Sale Price|20% Off

H 33.08 in W 15.75 in D 16.54 in

Thonet Bentwood Bistro Chair, Czechoslovakia 1940s

By Thonet

Located in Zohor, SK

Beautiful vintage chair designed by Thonet. Bentwood details and construction makes this piece a timeless item. Plywood seat and backrest. Strong oak wood. The chair was partially re...

Category

Vintage 1940s Czech Bauhaus Chairs

Materials

Oak, Bentwood, Plywood

$1,487

H 29.14 in W 20.87 in D 35.44 in

Light Mobile Vintage Finnish Baby Bed / Cot in Cane & Rattan, 1960s

Located in Helsinki, FI

A beautiful vintage handmade baby bed / cot in a beautiful honey like patina. The bed is very light and equipped with wheels. Suits perfectly for the outside garden, terrace or porch...

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Vintage 1960s Finnish Modern Beds and Bed Frames

Materials

Cane, Rattan

Bed Tester Spanish Baroque Carved Dark Green & Gilded Leather Superking 6ft180cm

$34,069

H 70.87 in W 73.23 in D 88.19 in

Bed Tester Spanish Baroque Carved Dark Green & Gilded Leather Superking 6ft180cm

Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK

Rare, Spanish Demi-Tester, Baroque Bed With Carved, Green Painted & Gilded Posts 181cm, 6ft High, Floral Painted Leather Headboard, sold with custom made box spring mattress base, ac...

Category

Antique 1720s Spanish Baroque Beds and Bed Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

English Victorian Spring Baby Carriage

$7,500

H 49.5 in W 47.5 in D 19.5 in

English Victorian Spring Baby Carriage

Located in Queens, NY

English Victorian pine painted and ebonized trim "CEE" spring baby carriage (perambulator) with brown tufted interior & folding hood (Wm Wilson patent for SILVER CROSS CO).

Category

Antique Late 19th Century British Victorian Children's Furniture

Materials

Silver

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Thonet Art Nouveau For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic thonet art nouveau available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, bentwood and beech, every thonet art nouveau was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a thonet art nouveau — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A thonet art nouveau is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles are sought with frequency. Thonet, Michael Thonet and Jacob and Josef Kohn each produced at least one beautiful thonet art nouveau that is worth considering.

How Much is a Thonet Art Nouveau?

Prices for a thonet art nouveau start at $233 and top out at $29,900 with the average selling for $1,900.

A Close Look at Art Nouveau Furniture

In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.

ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the late 19th century
Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood

ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.

The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.

The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.

In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.

The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.

Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.

Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).

Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.

There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.

Art Nouveau Master Alphonse Mucha Created Much More Than Parisian Posters

Aside from his iconic commercial prints, the Czech artist endeavored to make works that spoke to the soul.

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