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TON celebrates its birthday with a beautiful book
The anniversary publication summarises the one hundred and sixty year history of the Czech bentwood furniture factory.
Michael Thonet, a German-Austrian furniture designer, founded his factory in Bystřice pod Hostýnem in 1861. The forests around the TON factory provided the raw material for the furniture, while favourable conditions and growing
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Small history of plywood | Plydesign’s open call
Which Estonian company was the first to use plywood to produce public furniture? And what do Alvar Aalto and Marcell Breuer have in common? You can find out from the Plydesign article.
The history of plywood dates back to the 19th century. In the heyday of mass production, easy-to-shape materials
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All about plywood | Plydesign’s open call
What do the wooden chairs of trams and fighter jets have in common? Weirdly, the answer is plywood!
This extremely versatile material has been offering the warmth of wood for more than a hundred years now, while boasting a very colorful history. In our latest article series we’ll recount