Published to accompany a major exhibition at The NewCollection in Munich, this book reflects on 200 years offurniture design as illustrated by the history of familycompany Thonet. The ground-breaking achievements ofthe early period new technologies, new design methods,new distribution and marketing channels are juxtaposedwith developments in the twentieth and early twenty-firstcenturies. The firm founded in 1819 by Michael Thonet,a master cabinet-maker from Boppart, evolved downthrough the decades into one of the most importantmakers of bentwood furniture. In the late 1920s, Thonetteamed up with several Bauhaus designers who createdchairs in what was then an innovative technology.As these tubular steel furniture items and the earlybentwood furniture have long been part of the permanentexhibition at The New Collection, the focus of the currentpresentation and exhibition catalogue is on the pioneeringcreations by modern designers from Ed Harlis via VernerPanton through to Norman Foster, Stefan Diez, Ko