August Thonet No. 30 Bentwood Chair by Ton - Black Stain / Cane SeatThe No. 30 Bentwood Chair, designed by August Thonet, became famous as part of a 1920s bentwood revival as architects Le Corbusier and Mart Stam used it in their buildings and environments. The simple and unadorned bentwood design appealed to them, as did the "industrial" nature of the chair. Modernist designers saw it as a product of rigorous functionalism, an item whose design was determined by its material and the method used to produce it. Le