Curve e biondi riccioli viennesi. Title: Curve e biondi riccioli viennesi (Curves and blond wiener curleys). Authors: Giovanni e Chiara Renzi Editor: Silvana Editoriale Pages: about 320. Dimensions: 24x30 Colour-images: 365 Black and white images: 35     "The wooden chair will be now replaced by the Thonet chair, that I have already indicated as the only modern one thirty years ago". With this phrase pronounced by Adolf Loos in 1929 begins the book "Curve e biondi riccioli viennesi" ( "Curves and blond wiener curleys" , beyond 300 pages written by Giovanni and Chiara Renzi, published by Silvana Editoriale and delivered at libraries from the end of February 2000). It is the first italian book after twenty years of complete silence, years that have to bear comparison with the fluent literary production of other countries; it is a precise reconstruction of birth and development of a stile, of a new way of thinking and producing furniture, interlaced with Michael I Thonet's vicissitudes, gathered together for the first time in an italian text. This is not the unique new of the book that dwells on production tecniques experimented by the young Thonet and on their evolution till the possibility to mass-produce bentwood furniture. The text in fact fronts the the development of Thonet' s production and of its commercialisation lowering it, through an unpublished rebuilding, in the italian market. The "Thonet" history so become the pretext to trace the profile of italian factories, birth as concurrents: another new subject never examined by publishing trade. Richness and peculiarity of the book are expressed in the authors' iconographic accurate research, which has permitted the publication of interesting and never published images; among them particularly numerous are photographs and advertisement of the time. At this material are added Thonet catalogue of 1890, especially published by Gebroeder Thonet for the italian market, a Kohn catalogue of 1907 and a Fischel one of 1911, all of them integrally printed.