If the Rocker’s Rockin’…. Don’t come a-knockin’!!!! LOL!! Just kidding, come on in and take a seat on this INCREDIBLE #7025 bentwood rocking chair by Thonet!! If you were around in the ‘70’s, you know that this rocking chair was a STAPLE, almost EVERY house had one… or at least one LIKE it!! And if you weren’t, you missed out!! The ‘70’s was a ROCKIN’ era!!! This #7025 rocker was designed WAY back in 1883 and ours is a 1970’s production comprised of a fabulous bentwood frame with natural cane seat & back. The arms, sides, and rockers feature sculpted scrolls and curls indicative of an awesome Bauhaus style that will blend in beautifully among other decors. and it will be wonderful in almost ANY room whether a corner in your bedroom, beside the fireplace in the study, in the family room aside the sofa, or in the music room next to your turntable. Turn on some tunes and rock ‘til your heart is content!! Look, at the end of the day, everything about this chair simply ROCKS!!! Quite literally!!! What more is there to think about?
Thonet was founded by Michael Thonet. Michael was born in 1796 and was apprenticed by his father to a cabinetmaker. Shortly after he married, Michael opened his one-man cabinetmaking shop creating furniture and cabinetry in the traditional manner by carving the needed parts and then joining them together. In 1830 he began experimenting with bending wood into curved shapes and thus began a successful furniture company that has remained continually in operation for nearly 200 years. Thonet’s early work was very Biedermeier in style and not made for the common man. Gradually his designs became more Art Nouveau. In 1951 his chairs for the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair won a prize medal and by the late 1950s he began to make his first “consumer” chair. In 1875, a year before Michael’s death, Thonet’s five factories made 620,000 chairs. Then in 1876 after his death the company became Gebruder Thonet. But all was not roses. In 1869 the Thonet patents lapsed and by 1893 there were 52 bentwood companies in Europe. However, Thonet persevered. They branched out. They merged. They added designs by Le Corbusier and Breuer and alternative materials such as tubular chrome in place of bentwood to their offerings. Business boomed and waned through the years and there was even a Thonet revival, so to speak, beginning in the 1940s on into the mid-20th century. Till today, in the 21st century, Thonet is still a furniture company to be reckoned with almost 200 years later.
Simple, classic, timeless, and STUNNING… This vintage #7025 Bentwood & Cane Thonet rocking chair is all of that and MORE!!! What are you still thinking about? You know you love it… so, make it YOURS!!!!
