209 Chair

This elegant bentwood classic is a masterpiece in its construction and production: the protruding frame that forms both the backrest and the armrest is curved into shape from a single piece of solid beech wood. Like the original model of all bentwood chairs, No. 214, chair No. 209 also consists of only six pieces. 209 also consists of only six pieces. Due to its aesthetic reduction in combination with the organic form, it almost looks like a sculpture. The Swiss architect Le Corbusier was fascinated by it and used it in many of his buildings, for example in the Weissenhof estate in Stuttgart in 1927. He once commented that this chair “possesses nobility”.