After the First World War, a rebellion began within all artistic disciplines, against the established concept of art and lifestyle, which was considered pretentious and outdated. With new technological inventions such as aircrafts, cars, express trains and Atlantic liners, a completely new furniture style developed, inspired by the new comfortable, simple and free lifestyle of the modern person, free from unnecessary adornment.
In the beginning of the 1920s, Danish factories began to work with lightly built furniture models made from steam bent wood, inspired by foreign furniture manufacturers. The method of steam bending was established in the 1850s by Austrian Thonet-Mundus, from Vienna. A chair made from steam bent wood is therefore named the Vienna Chair.
After the First World War, a rebellion began within all artistic disciplines, against the established concept of art and lifestyle, which was considered pretentious and outdated. With new technological inventions such as aircrafts, cars, express trains and Atlantic liners, a completely new furniture style developed, inspired by the new comfortable, simple and free lifestyle of the modern person, free from unnecessary adornment. 
In the beginning of the 1920s, Danish factories began to work with lightly built furniture models made from steam bent wood, inspired by foreign furniture manufacturers. The method of steam bending was established in the 1850s by Austrian Thonet-Mundus, from Vienna. A chair made from steam bent wood is therefore named the Vienna Chair.
