Michael Anastassiades worked with Gebrüder Thonet Vienna to develop this doodle-like lounge chair using the Austrian company's traditional material palette of steam-bent wood and woven cane.
The London-based designer created the N. 200 chair to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of Michael Thonet's first joinery workshop in the German town of Boppard.
The chair's simple wooden frame is manufactured using the same process of mechanically steam-bending wood that Thonet pioneered two centuries previously, after moving to Vienna and founding the company Gebrüder Thonet.

Gebrüder Thonet Vienna chose to work with Anastassiades as it admired his approach to designing objects that have a timeless appeal, resulting from their pared-back simplicity. "They liked my general approach and philosophy and they gave me carte blanche to do what I wanted," said the designer, who is best known for his lighting designs such as the minimal String Lights he developed for Italian brand Flos.
"I wanted to do a chair and I liked the idea of a low-slung side chair that's comfortable and lightweight, so I went to them with that proposal," he added.

After visiting the company's production facility, Anastassiades witnessed how similar the current manufacturing process is to the way the company has traditionally produced its furniture.
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