Wiener GTV Design Thonet - Feng screen black fabric

The FENG screen was born from the desire of the Testatonda group to combine functionality and refinement. The design investigation starts from the Japanese concept shibumi "discreet beauty", enclosed in the harmonious design of the shapes, the essentiality of the materials and the elegance of the details. All elements that in their sum go to compose an object from a soul far from discreet but also able to assert itself in the space that wants to delimit. Hence the choice of name that takes inspiration from the Chinese translation of screen "ping feng" where feng stands for "wind or breeze". Feng, a three-dimensional accessory, is modular. The sails, with two or three modules, extend horizontally and depending on the composition and direction chosen, are a decorative element capable of creating different geometric games. Available in selected fabrics.

Testatonda

Testatonda is a design group based in Turin, but with multiple influences in its deepest identity. Rome, Milan, Barcelona are the metropolitan social and cultural scenarios of a path of formation and work in continuous evolution. A kaleidoscope of experiences that converges in the choice of the location: a real laboratory, once carpentry, today huge creative space that allows them to explore the project in full freedom and create prototypes to optimize together and then concretize them in an accurate self-production.

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.