The 400 double rooms (with bath or shower) have off-white and beige decor, with parquet floors and blond bentwood furniture.

He experimented with and reimagined basic materials like brick, glass and wood; he pioneered designs in bentwood furniture, and he planned communities of A-frame houses.

On permanent display there are exhibits about the town's history, Michael Thonet and his bentwood furniture, the composer Engelbert Humperdinck and other people somehow linked with the town.

Michael Thonet, a German-born Viennese designer, invented bentwood furniture, which was mass-produced at the rate of 4,000 pieces a day in 1900; these early pieces are widely available.

The obligatory potted plants, bentwood furniture and striped awnings allow the young to peer through smoke, down coffee and shout above the canned music in some approximation of style.

Thonet were particularly known for their manufacture of bentwood furniture, for which they had developed the first industrial-scale production processes.

The bentwood furniture looked the same, but there were no literary quarterlies on the coffee table and no cashmere sweaters folded in the dining room cabinet.

From Vienna they bought some of the earliest examples of bentwood furniture.

Glossy bentwood furniture, throw rugs over hardwood floors, Southwest accents: an Anasazi-style wedding vase here, a Georgia O'Keeffe print there.

By 1900, 6,000 workers were making 4,000 pieces of bentwood furniture a day in five factories, and chairs were selling for as little as $2.95 in the United States.