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18th May 2022
In many of our books eg novels by Dorothy Whipple or DE Stevenson, the families would definitely not have had a bentwood rocking chair, it would have been seen as outlandish. But of course the characters in The Oppermanns not only revered Thonet bentwood, they sold it in their shops.