As you start setting up your office, you need to put a lot of emphasis on your conference room and make sure it’s properly equipped to cater to your employees’ and clients’ needs. The design of a conference room is of great importance as employees and members will spend quite a lot of time there, so you want it to promote comfort and productivity.
Today, you wouldn’t exactly consider these wooden chairs with scrolls and contoured backs as modern, but when they first appeared they were light years ahead of their time. In fact, it was in the mid 1800s when German cabinetmaker-turned-chair-revolutionary, Michael Thonet, unveiled the silhouettes we’re so familiar with today – the bentwood chairs. It was the first time such a production method was used – heating wood to bend it into improbable chairs. The result was graceful, sculptural and surprisingly comfortable seating.
