Announcement · October 2026
Thonet New Zealand
is now KMS.
For more than three decades the company was known in New Zealand as Thonet New Zealand, bringing Thonet's bentwood chairs to the country's cafés, restaurants and homes, alongside its own collection and the work of other European and American design houses.
That agreement has concluded, and the Thonet name returns to Thonet GmbH in Germany. The business continues as KMS, the name under which its own collection has always been designed and made.
Nothing else changes. The same people, the same KMS Collection, and the same houses: Artek, Emeco, Nardi and LK Hjelle. Existing orders continue as normal.
Former thonet.co.nz addresses redirect here during the transition, and info@kms.co.nz reaches us directly.