Thonet: Classic Furniture in Bent Wood and Tubular Steel [Hardcover]

Alexander Von Vegesack (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli (August 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847820408
• ISBN-13: 978-0847820405
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,300,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Coffee table book, or better, May 4, 2000

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P. van Rijckevorsel (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thonet: Classic Furniture in Bent Wood and Tubular Steel (Hardcover)

I bought this book to provide me with some background information on bentwood furniture and it seems to me that it performs this task quite adequately. There are plenty of high quality color photographs of surviving furniture; these are combined with historic black&white photographs. The accompanying text describes basic principles clearly and provides a fair bit of history.

I am not a Thonet buff, so I dare not compare it with other literature on the topic, but viewed in isolation it seems nice enough. At good coffee table book, or better.