bent wood
Curved furniture material
Bent wood is wood that has been shaped into curves through steam, heat, or moisture rather than carved or joined.
The technique allows for smooth, flowing furniture designs—most famously the café chairs associated with Thonet: a bentwood rocker, bentwood dining chairs.
Also spelled as one word: bentwood.
- curvedSmoothly bent, not angular
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- furnitureMovable room objects
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
- rocking chairSeat on curved runners
windsor chair · plywood · laminated · willow · willow basket · oak · rocking · grain · flexible · molded · craftsman · workshop · furniture making · curve · bow · hoop · wicker · bentwood
- chair stylesChippendale, Queen Anne, Windsor, ladder back, Louis XVI
- green woodworkingbodger, drawknife, greenwood, cleaving, riving
- Nordic designDanish design, Swedish design, Nordic design, clean lines, functional design
woodworking technique
bent woodcarved wood
Sculpted timber artwork
mortise and tenon · turned wood · laminated wood · joinery · carved
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