During Milan Design Week 2026, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna strengthens its presence in the city with a dual participation that reflects two complementary expressions of its design vision.
On one hand, Continuum: From Archive to Living Art, in dialogue with a work by Quayola, presented at the Salone d’Onore and on the Terrazza of Triennale Milano. On the other, the brand joins SuperCity, the exhibition project curated by Giulio Cappellini at Superstudio Maxi.
TWO VISIONS OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN FOR MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026
Two distinct yet interconnected contexts, both rooted in an ongoing dialogue between heritage and contemporaneity, historical language and experimentation, and evolving forms of inhabiting space. Within SuperCity, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna becomes part of an open, walk-through exhibition ecosystem conceived as a living city: a fluid landscape where installations, art and brands coexist without physical barriers, turning space into continuous experience.
Here, design is never an isolated object but part of an urban and cultural narrative in constant relation with its context.
At the heart of the project lies TheCity, a curatorial device that envisions an ideal city founded on balance, calm, and the quality of shared space. Within this framework, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna contributes to a domestic yet collective landscape in which each element becomes part of a contemporary grammar of living.
The brand presents a selection of pieces from its catalogue, expressing a design language developed over time through continuity, research and material innovation. The presentation brings together some of its most representative works, by Sergio Bicego, Front, Hermann Czech, Josef Hoffmann and Nichetto Studio, offering a coherent and transversal reading of its identity between heritage and contemporary design.
The narrative opens with the Mon-Île Sofa by Sergio Bicego, which reinterprets the living space as an archipelago of relationships and compositional possibilities. Rather than a single object, it is a modular
system generating ever-changing configurations, creating spatial “phrases” between sofas, armchairs and tables. The balance between materials, textiles and bentwood defines a discreet, enveloping idea of
quiet luxury, where comfort emerges from precision and detail.
Alongside it, Hideout by Front translates intimacy into a soft, architectural form. A continuous bent beechwood structure wraps around the upholstered seat and backrest, while Vienna straw introduces a light, refined transparency.
The result is a protected, enclosed space, a contemporary refuge redefining the very idea of a lounge.
Design memory finds expression in Czech by Hermann Czech, a chair that distils rigour and introspection. Designed in 1994, it reinterprets the tradition of bent beechwood in an essential, almost abstract form, creating an object that feels rooted in memory yet fully contemporary. A silent presence that affirms the strength of reduction.
This system also includes the timeless icon N.811 by Josef Hoffmann, one of the foundational
codes of the Gebrüder Thonet Vienna language. The lightness of bent beechwood combined
with Vienna straw results in a perfect formal balance, capable of crossing eras and styles while
remaining strikingly relevant.
The vision finally extends outdoors with Ample by Nichetto Studio, marking a significant evolution in the brand’s language. Here, the iconic bentwood gesture is reinterpreted in metal, transforming a historical code into
a new design grammar.
The chair and bistro table are defined by fluid lines and generous proportions, designed for both residential and contract environments, and express a new idea of contemporary conviviality, open, inclusive and adaptable.
Through these presences, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna interprets SuperCity as a miniature ideal city: a narrative ecosystem in which design does not simply occupy space, but actively constructs it. A walkable landscape
of relationships, memory and new possibilities of living, where each object becomes part of a broader, shared vision.
Press preview: Monday 20 April from 10:30AM to 9PM
Open to public: Tuesday 21 April – Sunday 26 April 2026 from 10:30AM to
9PM
SuperCity al Superstudio Maxi
Via Moncucco 35
Press preview: Sunday 19 April 2026 from 10AM to 6PM
Open to public: Monday 20 – 25 April 2026 from 11AM to 9PM
Sunday 26 April 2026 from 11AM to 6PM
GEBRÜDER THONET VIENNA
Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) is part of a large European history and it helped to define the visual grammar of contemporary time. Today, the company renews its stylistic features, the bent wood and woven cane,
designing a new phase together with new designers from all over the world.
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