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Thonet is Dead T-Shirt
Thonet is Dead T-Shirt
Thonet is Dead T-Shirt
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Designed in Collaboration with Claire Louise Smith for Handsome & Co – School of Woodworking & Design.

The series titled ‘Thonet is Dead’ will be produced in very limited editions and pays homage to Michael Thonet one of our favorite designers. This series will be produced in an effort to raise funds to go towards the establishment of Handsome & Co, a community studio workshop and education centre located in Melbourne, Australia.

We hope this soon to be iconic t shirt will strike a chord with designers, design addicts, artists, cool kids, dags, our friends, our families, well frankly anyone who might wear a t-shirt or might want to show support for our exciting new venture and to wear that support across their chest. The T-shirts serve to remind us, that despite a career spent pushing the boundaries of technology by pioneering and perfecting bending solid timber, creating timeless chair designs and inspiring a generation, Thonet is (as previously stated) dead.

His demise is reminder to us that everyone must ultimately come to an end, that a good design far outlasts the fragility of our mortal condition and that we as makers and designers should strive to surpass a bench mark set by him and others like him, working constantly to push the boundaries of materials and design.

Don’t get us wrong, the t-shirts are  also an act of reverance, to quote Eames “[we] :admit the influence of those who have gone before.”  We envy Thonet’s success while at the same time dreaming his dream.

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