The other day when I went to Muji, I saw that they were selling a lot of good books on design and technology. Finally, my wife bought me the book "Chair 500 Designs that Matter" by Phaidon as I had been standing and looking at this book for a long time.
I have always bought a lot of books on Architecture and Design wherever I go, and they are usually very heavy (and expensive), but because I enjoy them and they are necessary for my work, I try to get as many as possible. I usually keep the books on the shelf in my office so that all the architects and designers in the company can use them for research, but it's a shame that most young people in the profession these days are too lazy to read. They only sit in front of the computer screen when they have free time because they think that everything is available on the Internet, so why bother reading books.
There are many books that I have that no one touches for a year even though they contain a lot of knowledge to learn from. Many interior designers nowadays, especially when designing ideas, will use 3D software and related libraries to choose models to incorporate into the design. When I ask what the name of this desk or chair is, who designed it, when it was created, etc., it is to know if the choice of the desk or chair is suitable for the design space, if the furniture is available on the market and its price, and to ensure that all design issues are thoroughly researched. However, 9 out of 10 people cannot answer immediately.
In fact, there are many types of wood that are very familiar and found in many places, but users do not know information about them such as Tolix metal chairs (usually suitable for industrial style spaces), Le Corbusier leather sofas (often seen in waiting areas and meeting rooms), or Thonet wood and wicker chairs (often chosen for vintage or minimalist style designs)... Today, I would like to write a little more about the Thonet No. 14 chair, which is a very popular chair and has special details in its history and development.
The Thonet No. 14 chair was first designed and introduced by German designer and craftsman Michael Thonet in 1859. This chair is part of a collection of many other famous chairs by Thonet, such as the rocking chair No. 1 introduced in 1860, the Thonet No. 18 and Thonet No. 56 at the end of the 19th century, or the elegant Thonet No. 209 in the early 1900s...
The Thonet No. 14 chair is made up of 6 smoothly processed and bent wooden slats using the bentwood technique, which took Thonet a long time to achieve perfection. He also used 10 dowels and 2 rounded pegs to complete the chair...
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