--- title: "S 43 DR" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-dr" language: "en" type: "product" description: "S 43 DR - Designer Office swivel chairs by Thonet ✓ Comprehensive product & design information ✓ Catalogs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2021-01-21T04:00:00+01:00" modified: "2026-06-18T20:12:36+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410xAUTO_fit_center-center_90_none/Thonet_S-43-DR_ID-05-1008-10420.jpg" --- [![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/THONET_2018.png)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/thonet) # Thonet S 43 DR Year of design: 1931 | Design: [Mart Stam](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/mart-stam) ![S 43 DR](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/Thonet_S-43-DR_ID-05-1008-10420.jpg) [Office / Contract furniture](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/office-contract-furniture) **›** [Seating furniture](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/seating-furniture-1) **›** [Office swivel chairs](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/office-swivel-chairs) Simplicity that unfolds its effect everywhere: Mart Stam removed the back legs from furniture that for centuries had been created based on the same principles. Through evolutionary refinement, an object that simply looks good in any place where both understatement and quality are wanted. For his furniture designs, Mart Stam placed a high value on usefulness and austerity with regard to aesthetics as well as material. The straight-lined form, a clear construction and improved sitting comfort resulted from this approach. Stam achieved the greatest possible reduction with the cantilever chair S 43 by combining the tubular steel frame with moulded wood elements for seat and backrest. The pure, restrained form of this cantilever chair makes it an exemplary design in the spirit of modernism. Today, Thonet owns the artistic copyright for the strictly cubic chair without back legs. The reading hall for natural sciences of the German National Library in Leipzig was furnished with the cantilever chair S 43 in 1933. More than 70 years later, Thonet delivered more of the S 43 chairs as an addition to the existing furniture. Only tubular steel furniture of the highest quality, as is typical for Thonet, exhibits exceptional durability. In all of his furniture designs Mart Stam relied on straightforward forms, an aesthetic economy of means in the construction and the benefit of improved seating comfort. In the case of S 43 he combined the tubular steel frame with moulded plywood shells for seat and back and thus created an absolute reduction. Due to the comfortable flexing effect of the frame, upholstery is unnecessary. Its clear, reserved form makes this cantilever chair an exemplary design in the spirit of modernism. Today, Thonet owns the artistic copyright for this strictly cubic “chair with no rear legs”. ![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/Thonet_S-43-PVFDR_ID-05-1008-10390.jpg)![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/Thonet_S_43_HomeOffice_ID-05-1008-10420.jpg) ![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/Thonet_S-43-FDR_ID-05-1008-10390.jpg)![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/Thonet_S-43_DR_H_Mood_lowRes_210125_085103.jpg) - Request a quote - [Manufacturer's Product-Info](https://www.thonet.de/en/all-products/detail/s-43-dr) - [Manufacturer's website](http://www.thonet.de/startseite.html) All S 43 products - [![S 43 K](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/Thonet_S_43_K_TP130_beauty.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-k) - [![S 43 DR](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/Thonet_S-43-DR_ID-05-1008-10420.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-dr) - [![S 43 H](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/Thonet__S_43_H_ID-05-1008-10420.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-h) - [![S 43 with coloured steel pipe](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/t/thonet/produkte/s-43-with-coloured-steel-pipe/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/s-43-with-coloured-steel-pipe-2.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-with-coloured-steel-pipe) - [![S 43](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/Thonet_Stuhl__S_43__FS0_1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43) - [![S 43 F](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_350x225_crop_center-center_none/Thonet_Stuhl__S_43_F__FS0_1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/thonet/s-43-f) - [All products by Thonet @ Stylepark](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/manufacturer/thonet) - [Thonet @ Stylepark](https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/thonet) Thonet Related Articles [INTERVIEWS Strong presence 4/7/2025 The internationally renowned fashion designer Jil Sander has reinterpreted Marcel Breuer's ‘S 64’ cantilever chair for Thonet. ‘Serious’ and “Nordic” are the names of the design lines with which she has given the tubular steel classic from the 1920s a new sensuality. In this interview, she tells us what was important in the process.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/jil-sander-thonet-s64-marcel-breuer-interview-stylepark-magazine) [FEATURED PREVIEW – MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 JS . 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A workshop report.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/thonet-design-museum-die-neue-sammlung) [FEATURED Elegant, and no frills 10/15/2015 Aesthetically speaking, the new conference room at Codic real-estate corporation calls to mind scenes from James Bond and Mad Men – thanks to the elegant Thonet furniture.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/thonet)