Bystřice pod Hostýnem is a place with one hundred and fifty years’ tradition of bent-wood furniture manufacture. The place to which Michael Thonet, by founding the bent-wood factory in 1861, predetermined its destiny for the next 150 years. The factory in Bystřice pod Hostýnem fascinates and wins favour of all newcomers up to the present time. It is the oldest place in the world where furniture is still manufactured on the principles of its founder. From its beginning up to 1953, the plant in Bystřice pod Hostýnem manufactured under the name THONET in different forms depending on actual situation on the market and in ownership structures. Since 1953 it is the company TON that has been making furniture in this place.
