biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1796–1871)
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| biography:
| Manufacturer of bentwood furniture, born in Boppard, W Germany. Trained as a cabinet-maker, he established a workshop in Boppard (1819), and gained prominence for parquetry. He experimented with steam-bending veneers, and was invited to Vienna (1842) to work on the interiors of the Liechtenstein Palace, where he used some pieces made of solid bent wood. In 1856 he had perfected his bentwood technique, and started making cafe chairs, rocking chairs, and hatstands. One of the pioneers of mass-production, by 1870 his firm was producing 400 000 pieces a year. After his death, his sons carried on the business, and his designs continue to be in vogue. |
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