Wiener GTV Design Thonet -  Cirque bar stool with backrest

The light circus playfulness animates the Cirque family of stools created by Martino Gamper for Wiener GTV Design. The curved element, the leitmotif of the brand, fits into the base in an unexpected way, outlining the profile of the seat through a chain of two or three wooden circles that ring the legs along the entire length. An aesthetic virtuosity that integrates perfectly with the functionality of the seat, available in two heights: the slender high stool with and without backrest, Cirque L and Cirque M, and the stable and proportioned low stool Cirque S.

Martino Gamper

He lives and works in London. Starting as an apprentice at a furniture maker in Merano, Gamper continued to study sculpture with Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He completed a master’s degree in 2000 at the Royal College of Art in London, where he studied with Ron Arad. Working in places of design and art, Martino Gamper engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and series product design to the avant-garde of the international furniture industry. Gamper received the Moroso Award for Contemporary Art in 2011 and the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, Furniture Award in 2008 for his project "A 100 Chairs in 100 days".

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.