Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years.
No one knows how many circus lions have been cowed by the business end of a bentwood chair, or how many Our Town lovers have sipped ice cream sodas in its...
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