119 Lounge Chair, Classic Thonet Redesign, Furniture, Design Update, Pictures
Thonet – 119 Lounge Chair
16 Dec 2021

Sit back and relax on the 119: the lightweight lounge chair for living rooms and hotel lobbies

Design: Sebastian Herkner, 2021
119 Lounge Chair
Classic materials such as bentwood and canework, reduced to the essential. The new 119 chair designed by Sebastian Herkner is a quintessential Thonet piece that?s bound to make its mark in any setting. It can be positioned alone or in a pair as an elegant counterpoint to a comfy sofa, whether in a residential living room or the lounge area of a hotel lobby or the reception/breakout area of a ?New Work? type environment. This new design has emerged organically from the successful 118 chair programme, originally created for Thonet by Sebastian Herkner in 2018. The 119 ? a spin-off of the 118 family and yet completely independent

The new 119 lounge chair has a strikingly distinctive shape and offers inviting comfort: its wide, gently inclined backrest and deep seat that tilts backwards at an angle of 5.5 degrees are optimally designed for a relaxing seated position. There is also an optional seat cushion, which can be tied to the back legs to make the chair even more comfortable.
The relationship with the 118 chair family is evident in both the design principle and several finer details: the shape of the chair legs, for example, which are rounded at the back and have gentle edges at the front, echoes the characte...