GTV: Heritage Designs the Future

22/05/2020 - After the NYNY storage unit by storagemilano, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) continues to develop the collection with the new SÖLDEN and SUGILOO chairs and the SUZENNE two-seater sofa, expressions of a research that weaves past and present, looking to the future.

 

Sölden is a fascinating project that is the result of a continuous investigation into the long tradition of bent wood: a seat that pays homage to the stylistic codes typical of the ’30s, an important chapter in the profound heritage of GTV that is still little investigated. For the first time, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna in fact shift the focus from the 1800s to the ‘30s of last century, a particularly intense period under architectural and artistic side which has seen its success in Art Decò, known in Vienna as Jugendstil.

Sölden is therefore a seat where bent-wood takes a more contemporary character thanks to the square section and the shapes that echo the typical clean design of the Bauhaus period.

Peculiarities are the large square upholstered seat and the woven cane backrest that, just like a large fan, with a bent-wooden frame, welcomes the back, ensuring great comfort.

 

The rigorous style of Michael Anastassiades defines the new SUGILOO bent wood chair with wood or upholstered seat, proposed with and without wooden backrest.

Its structure is pure and essential: the light structure is given by the encounter of curves that, like the stroke of a pencil on the sheet, draw seat, backrest and armrests.

A new refined minimalist tribute by the well-known designer to the DNA of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna with which he shares the love for the detail.

Gebrüder Thonet Vienna reconfirms the collaboration with Chiara Andreatti with the new SUZENNE SOFA two-seater sofa that incorporates the aesthetic characteristics of the lounge chair of the same name.

A project with a contemporary spirit, SUZENNE SOFA reinterprets, with the soft stoke of the designer, the characteristic elements of the DNA of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna: bent wood and woven cane.

The seat is distinguished by the light structure in solid bent beech wood, encounter of straight and curved lines to support the woven cane backrest, defined by the wooden frame. The seat and backrest cushions are enveloping and soft and in a plant symbolism they bloom like a corolla from the stem.