Photo: Interiview Magazine
Model: Amanda Seyfried
I used to have terrible feelings for this chair. The best way to explain those feelings would be with one word. Feilner. If you don't understand, that's ok because I will share with you. So I had this scary professor during my freshman year and I was enrolled in a class called "fundamentals." Well something like the first couple weeks of class she had us sketch either the bentwood rocker or the Chrysler building. Needless to say, I sketched this chair. Now let me make one thing very clear to all of you. One of my deciding factors on interior design versus fashion was that I can NOT draw. So this was a very frustrating class period for me. I have thus held this experience against this chair for a very long time and never gave it a chance...until now.
This is the Bentwood Rocking Chair by Michael Thonet and his sons. They developed the technique of bending solid beechwood with water vapor in 1856. This is Rocking Chair No. 1 and he became most famous after his creation of the Cafe House Chair No. 14.
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