While designer Michael Thonet famously invented the bentwood Boppard layer wood chair in 1836, it's Sweden's oldest furniture factory, located within the thick forest of Småland, Sweden, whose curved ...

In 1830, a bearded German carpenter named Michael Thonet invented a way to bend wood as if it were clay: Soak it in boiling glue, then force it into curves. His bentwood furniture still sells today, ...

Because the process of making bentwood furniture requires that rods of wood be bent along the grain, it presented the perfect title for a new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Against the ...

Milan 2013: Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has steam-bent and laminated wood to create a chair for Czech furniture brand TON. The legs and back rest are steam-bent into shape by clamping ...

Winter’s debris yields bentwood furniture that tells a story. We’re no longer searching just for kindling. Now we’re watching for suitable downed branches for bentwood furniture. This part of the ...