Definitions for "Thonet"
Bentwood furniture produced by a steam process developed by the German cabinetmaker Michael Thonet in 1835. The Thonet line is best known for its graceful curvilinear Art Nouveau designs produced at the turn of the nineteenth century and for its highly sophisticated Art Deco designs of the 1920s.
Michael Thonet (1796-1871). German-born Austrian furniture maker and designer who was the first to mass-produce furniture and who perfected bentwood chair making.