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No. 14 chair. The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the ' bistro chair ', it was designed by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. [1] [2] It is made using bent wood (steam-bending), and the design required years to perfect.
Michael Thonet's direct descendants in the fifth and sixth generation remain involved in the company's business as associates and sales partners. The collection comprises famous bentwood furniture, tubular steel classics from the Bauhaus era, and current designs by famous contemporary architects and designers. [4]
The Broken Chair is a monumental sculpture in wood, constructed of 5.5 tons of wood, 12 metres (39 ft) high standing across the street from the Palace of Nations in Geneva. It has broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and cluster bombs. In 2001, Steve Mann exhibited a chair sculpture at San Francisco Art Institute. The chair had ...
Coffee table. A modern white coffee table. A coffee table is a low table designed to be placed in a sitting area for convenient support of beverages, remote controls, magazines, books (especially large, illustrated coffee table books ), decorative objects, and other small items. [1] [2] [3]
Smoothies. Number of employees. 200 (as of 2011) [2] Website. WoodsCoffee.com. Woods Coffee is a regional coffeehouse chain based in the Pacific Northwest, with 20 coffeehouse locations. [1] It is based in Bellingham, Washington, and primarily serves northwestern Washington. The chain was founded in Lynden, Washington, in 2002.
Short visual history of furniture styles (from left to right): cloisonné plaque (), Chair of Reniseneb (Ancient Egyptian), metal brazier with satyrs from Pompei (Greco-Roman), fall-front cabinet inlaid with ivory (), low-back armchair (), casket with images of Cupids (), wood and ivory furniture fragment (), chest (), analogion (Romanian Medieval), sideboard with two bodies (Renaissance ...
Lath seen from the back with white plaster coat oozing through. Lath and plaster is a building process used to finish mainly interior dividing walls and ceilings. It consists of narrow strips of wood ( laths) which are nailed horizontally across the wall studs or ceiling joists and then coated in plaster. The technique derives from an earlier ...
Wood's metal. Wood's metal. Wood's metal, also known as Lipowitz's alloy or by the commercial names Cerrobend, Bendalloy, Pewtalloy and MCP 158, is a metal alloy that is useful for soldering and making custom metal parts, but its fumes are toxic, as well as being toxic on skin exposure. The alloy is named for Barnabas Wood, who invented and ...