THONET cantilever chair • S 33 range
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THONET cantilever chair • S 33 range
Cubic shape, clear form, fine proportions, a swinging movement: the evolutionarily perfected cantilever chairs S 33 and S 34, among the first of their kind, unite contemporary spirit and traditional awareness. "Why four legs when two will do", wrote the artist Kurt Schwitters in 1927, on seeing the first cantilever chairs in furniture history. The two chairs S 33 and S 34 caused a great stir at the Werkbund exhibition that opened in 1927 at the Weissenhof in Stuttgart. As early as 1925, Mart Stam had experimented with thin gas pipes, initially joining their angles with flanges of the kind plumbers use. As a further development, Stam created the principle of freely cantilevered chairs that no longer rested on four legs — a constructional principle whose formal restraint became an important building block in the history of modern furniture design. His cantilever chairs S 33 and S 34 were more than just functionally designed furnishings; they belonged to the revolutionary overall concept of a new understanding of architecture and living.
The THONET S 33 cantilever chair is the version without armrests. Its chrome-plated tubular steel frame carries the seat and back in three coverings: core leather, which can be retensioned via tensioning brackets beneath the seat (S 33), fabric (S 33 V) or synthetic mesh weave (S 33 N). The frame is available powder-coated for an additional charge, and the core leather is also available as buffalo leather. The version with armrests is the S 34. For outdoor use, the S 33 N is available with the Thonet Protect frame; the matching cushion pad is the S 33 PA.
- Design: Mart Stam, 1926 (artistic copyright)
- Type: cantilever chair
- Frame: tubular steel
- Frame version: chrome-plated (powder-coated for an additional charge)
- Glide: POM plastic glides or felt glides (for an additional charge)
- Covering: seat and back in core leather (buffalo leather for an additional charge) · seat and back in fabric · seat and back in synthetic mesh weave
- Suitable for outdoor use is the version with synthetic mesh weave: Thonet Protect frame in deep black RAL 9005 or pure white RAL 9010, mesh weave in black or white; matching cushion pad in anthracite, petrol or natural
- Seat height: 46 cm
- Weight: 7.5 kg (core leather) · 7 kg (fabric / synthetic mesh weave)
Dimensions (W x D x H): 50 x 64 x 84 cm
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