Thonet Tomorrow

From 5th to 9th April, five designs for the new Thonet chair were on exhibition as the collaboration with the Scuola Politecnica di Design coordinated by Riccardo Blumer.

For the Salone del Mobile 2006 Gebr�der Thonet Vienna S.p.A. and the Scuola Politecnica di Design presented Thonet Tomorrow.

A proving ground for twenty-five young international designers measured their talents against a timeless icon of world design: the Thonet chair.

Thonet Tomorrow offered students from the Milanese school an opportunity to design for a company which has produced masterpieces of design in more than 200 years such as the revolutionary and universally accessible "No. 14" chair.

An important challenge posed by a company that is looking towards the future, asserting its experimental spirit by cultivating relationships with emerging talents.

This new "greenhouse" of Gebr�der Thonet Vienna S.p.A., now part of the Poltrona Frau Group, consists of new students from the 2005-5006 Master SPD programme, 23 to 37 years old, from eleven different countries, including Argentina, Germany, Indonesia, Great Britain, and of course Italy.