S 64 NDR Atelier Swivel Chair Thonet

On the move: S 64 NDR Atelier swivel chair from Thonet

A classic is on the move - the world of work is constantly changing. Employees are switching back and forth between home office, workplace and work on the move in trains and aeroplanes. And even classic furniture needs to become more flexible. Thonet has taken this to heart and given an icon of classic furniture design wheels.

The S 64 by Marcel Breuer is now available in the Atelier version and is therefore mobile as a swivel chair with a central base on castors. The Swiss designer Christophe Marchand accompanied this redesign of a design classic and dedicated himself to this task with great sensitivity and respect for the original design idea.

Designer Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the state Bauhaus in Weimar from 1920 to 1924. He became head of the carpentry workshop there in 1925. What began as a private project quickly became part of the Bauhaus Dessau: his pioneering tubular steel furniture designs. Breuer left the Bauhaus in 1928 and sought closer contact with industry, including Thonet. He settled in Berlin as an architect and worked mainly in the field of interior design before working for Thonet for several years. This led to the creation of a comprehensive tubular steel collection in 1930/31. Breuer left Germany via Budapest, London and finally landed in the USA in 1937. At this time, he developed plywood and aluminium furniture. Through the mediation of Walter Gropius, Breuer became a lecturer and later even a professor of architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge. From 1941, he and Gropius ran an architecture studio together. Breuer is regarded as one of the most central figures in the history of architecture and design.

Thonet - 200 years of tradition

The Frankenberg-based manufacturer stands for consistency and the irrepressible urge to innovate. Thonet was the first manufacturer to bring bentwood furniture onto the market and to sell tubular steel furniture. Michael Thonet founded his own workshop in Boppard am Rhein in 1819. In the 1830s, he experimented with veneer strips boiled in glue and is therefore regarded as the inventor of "bentwood furniture". in 1842, he was invited to Vienna by the Austrian State Chancellor Prince Metternich and the coffee house culture there laid the foundation for Thonet's later success. With this innovative spirit, it is not surprising that Thonet also cultivated links with the Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer. Thonet realised Breuer's experiments with cold-bent tubular steel and produced the famous cantilever chairs.

Material and format

The frame with the five-arm swivel base on castors is made of aluminium. The wooden parts are made of stained beech. The seat and backrest are covered with black plastic mesh.  The chair is 68 cm wide, 68 cm deep and 77 cm high. The seat height is 39 cm.