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The First Man to Make a Chair Factory
The first man to make a chair factory was called michael thonney. As a frenchman, all chairs were lovingly handcrafted and made. But in vienna, forty or 50 years later, the mid nineteenth century, lots of restaurants and cafes are opening - they need chairs. And it's too much effort for individual craftsmen o make laboriously carved chairs. So he had this brilliant method where he would a cut wood into strips, he'd boil bundles of them in glue, and then he'd bend them into shape in a mould that he wanted them to be. Then on the very opposite, the mass produced,. when kim corashon and cone west got married
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