bentwood

The backrest, comprising just two curved pieces of wood, is a classic example of the work produced by bentwood specialists Thonet.

Bentwood and rattan flower chairs and table, PS850 for the set, Raj Tent Club (rajtentclub.com) Ideally, this terrific trio is best suited to a conservatory, but would look just as striking in a sunny corner or bedroom setting.

This rattan Bentwood chair which can be found in Belfast's Emporium on the Square and would make a statement in any room and would add a vintage boho look your gran would be proud of.

She draws reference from history-Austrian-German furniture maker Michael Thonet's light but sturdy bentwood chair that was developed in the 19th century and which required few furniture parts.

* iO Chicago celebrates prolific alumni with its first Bentwood Comedy Festival.

"Chile entered the market with cheap and cheerful Cabernet," says Marybeth Bentwood, executive director for the U.S market for Wines of Chile.

In 1944, Ercol was asked by the Government to produce 100,000 low-cost chairs with a bentwood frame and an arched back supporting spindles.

The images kept shifting the mode of contemplation: The circular opening between the lines of a Thonet bentwood chair's back that appears in three versions in Serve, 2016, exemplified the transmutation of sculpted form into image; in Interested in the Things Being Themselves, 2016, printed and folded views of Brancusi's studio next to a potted plant briefly evoked the spatial illusion of an interior.

The cover, depicting a Marla-Frazee-like assemblage of readers captivated by their books, is an indication of what's within: An older woman in pearls sips tea and reads The Puttermesser Papers as her dog naps at her feet; a dark-skinned, knee-socks-sporting young girl with a yellow book bag at her side is hunched on stone steps, utterly absorbed in All-of-a-Kind Family; a balding prepster/hipster in gray jeans and deck shoes, curved in on himself in a classic bentwood chair, pores over The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; a bearded gentleman in a wool tartan cap crosses his legs in a silver bistro chair as he reads Night.