For a Few Flourishes More 
The Thonet chair No. 25-designed in 1875- 
was first illustrated in the earliest known sales 
catalog from 1879. In addition to the No. 26, 
in which the three hairpin-shaped backrest in- 
serts merely touch and do not cross, the 
No. 25 was certainly one of Gebrüder Thonet’s 
most attractive models from that period. The 
sales catalogs of various manufacturers offer 
identical copies of the Thonet model under the 
same name or a different model number.1 The 
variant we contrast here with the Thonet model 
comes from the Company Farsky & Jaworek 
from Tesln and was produced between 1875 
and 1879. 2 In accordance with the preference 
of Historicism for ornate forms, the firm appar- 
ently wanted to improve on or outdo the Thonet 
model and let the middle hairpin terminate in 
two volutes. 
1 At Fischei it received, as with Thonet, the model number 25 
(Fischei Catalog from 1890; Archiv Wolfgang Thillmann), at Ungvär 
[Ungvärer Möbelfabriks-Aktien-Gesellschaft] number 37; cf. 
Graham Dry, Reprint of the 1900 Ungvär catalog, Munich 1983, 10. 
2 Thanks to Yvan Snauwaert for this Information. 
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Sessel (nach Thonet-Sessel Nr. 25) Chair (after Thonet Chair No. 25) 
Entwurf Design: Gebrüder Thonet, 1875 
Ausführung Execution: Farsky & Jaworek, Teschen Cesky Tesln, 1 875-79; Buche, massiv gebogen, 
Geflecht Beech, solid bent, cane; MAK H 2186/1969; Schenkung Bundeskammer der gewerblichen 
Wirtschaft Donation Federal Chamber of Commerce 
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