THONET chair, cantilever, stackable, with armrests • S 43 FST range
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THONET cantilever chair, stackable, with armrests • S 43 FST programme
Simplicity that makes its mark everywhere: Mart Stam removed the back legs from a chair shape that had followed similar principles for centuries. Through evolutionary refinement, this produced a piece of seating furniture that cuts a fine figure anywhere understatement and quality are called for. In his furniture designs, Mart Stam valued high utility and economy, both aesthetically and materially. This gave rise to the straight-lined shape, the clear construction and the improved seating comfort. Stam achieved the greatest possible reduction with the cantilever chair S 43 by combining the tubular steel frame with moulded wood parts for seat and back. Its pure, understated shape makes this cantilever chair an exemplary design in the spirit of modernism. The artistic copyright for the strictly cubic, back-leg-less chair now belongs to Thonet. The Natural Sciences reading room of the German National Library in Leipzig was already fitted with the S 43 cantilever chair in 1933. More than 70 years later, Thonet supplied new S 43 chairs to complement the originals. Only high-quality tubular steel furniture, as is typical of Thonet, is this durable and sustainable. The programme is complemented by the swivel chair variants S 43 Atelier (DR), the bar stool S 43 H and the children's chair S 43 K.
The THONET S 43 FST cantilever chair consists of a chrome-plated tubular steel frame with a seat and back in moulded plywood, with armrests, stackable. It is available unupholstered (S 43 FST) and with mirror upholstery (S 43 PVFST). The moulded wood parts are available for a surcharge in further stain shades, in oak, or with opaque lacquer finish. The programme also includes the swivel chair variants S 43 Atelier, the bar stool S 43 H and the children's chair S 43 K.
- Design: Mart Stam, 1931 (artistic copyright)
- Type: cantilever chair
- Frame: tubular steel
- Frame version: chrome-plated
- Armrests: with armrests
- Glides: POM plastic glides or felt glides (for a surcharge)
- Set: seat and back in moulded plywood
- Surface version: beech I (beech II, oak, lightened oak or opaque lacquer for a surcharge)
- Upholstery: mirror upholstery (mirror upholstery on seat and back)
- Stackability: stackable
- Optional: row connection (for a surcharge)
- Seat height: 46 cm (moulded plywood, unupholstered) · 47 cm (mirror upholstery on seat and back)
- Weight: 6.8 kg (moulded plywood, unupholstered) · 7.2 kg (mirror upholstery on seat and back)
- Dimensions (W x D x H): 56 x 52 x 82 cm
Mirror upholstery
With mirror upholstery, only the inner side is upholstered – exactly the surface you sit and lean on. The back of the seat shell remains visible in wood or plastic. This keeps the chair light and slender while still gaining noticeably in seating comfort.
Row connection
Chairs designed for ganging can be joined side by side into fixed rows of seating without tools. This is required wherever large numbers of people sit together: in halls, churches, canteens or conference rooms. The Thonet connector is patented and meets the DIN EN 14703 standard for row seating, including panic safety – in an emergency, the row can be cleared quickly and safely.
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