Wiener GTV Design Thonet - Post Mundus chair

Supple, light, and elegant. This chair, designed in 1849, uses the new technique of steam bent beech wood, and clearly shows the philosophy aimed at simplifying the components to enable mass production. The seat is made from cane.

Martino Gumper

Born in Merano in 1971, Martino Gamper, after an apprenticeship as a carpenter, studied sculpture and product design at the University of Applied Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, In 1996 he moved to Milan to work as a freelancer for important international design firms. In 1998 he moved to London to attend a master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, which he graduated in 2000, and thus began his creative production, developing and producing a wide variety of objects, from limited editions to semi-industrial productions and site-specific installations.

Wiener GTV Design Thonet

Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and his five children were the most successful manufacturers of furniture in the Industrial Age. Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) has develop edits work in a successful blend of the traditional and the modern, of continuity and renewal, with a new production program that begins by re-editing a series of Gebrüder Thonet classics. At the same time, GTV stands for contemporary furnishing. Advanced production techniques are applied to innovative designs and uses of materials, to create highly sought-after, multipurpose furnishing items. Truly original, up-to-date solutions that integrate well with the more classic products of its catalogue, now reworked.Items such as chair No. 14, of which more than 50 million were made between 1850 and 1930, have gone down in history for their fine design and manufacturing quality, and yet still today excite and attract new generations. GTV always succeeds in finding the perfect combination of tradition and innovation, assisted by continuous research into new, clear-cut, versatile designs.The tangible and intangible intrinsic value of the GTV collection is expressed in the Wiener GTV Design brand, engraved on a coin embedded in the structure of each single piece: a precious detail that certifies authenticity, originality and quality in stable balance between manufacturing and high-level craftsmanship. Inspiring this unique detail was the coin with the image of the brand that was historically spent internally within Thonet production facilities throughout Europe.