DESIGNED CIRCA 1865-66, MANUFACTURED BY GEBRDER THONET

Cf: Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture, Thonet catalogue 1904, London, 1980, p. 43

Earlier Thonet models such as this desk chair reflect the firm's principal aim to efficiently mass-produce durable, economic, and modern furnishings for commercial and institutional environments as well as for the domestic consumer.