What does a chair look like without visible stitching? Jil Sander's answer: a leather sculpture held up by tubular steel. This marks the second phase of her collaboration with legendary German furniture maker Thonet, JS. THONET, centered on a reinterpreted S 411 lounge chair and S 1070 table — both joining the original collection as expansion pieces for 2026.
The S 411 traces back to a Thonet factory design from 1932, its S-curved steel tube running continuously through to the armrests, whose covering is shaped like an ice skate blade to give the whole chair a floating visual quality. Sander's treatment here fully wraps the spring-cushioned seat in leather, closed off with minimal seams and piped backing to deliberately erase any sense of separate components — making the chair read as a single cast form rather than assembled furniture. It comes alongside a matching S 411 H ottoman, sized to pair with the B 97 side table launched in 2025.
On the table side, the story lives in the dividing line. The S 1070 originates from designer Glen Oliver Löw's 2004 concept, its 220 x 100 cm tabletop split in half down the long edge, with the two halves available in matching or contrasting colors. This split isn't just a visual trick — it also makes the table read as proportionally lighter than a solid slab, echoing the same Bauhaus logic, particularly Marcel Breuer's tubular steel construction, of using a metal frame to strip away the inherent weight of wooden furniture.
