Leisure Chairs

Jorge Hardoy Ferrari Butterfly Chair

Product Name: Butterfly Chair
Size: 580*500*850
Package Size: 620*540*890
CBM: 0.30
Product description: Jorge Hardoy Ferrari Knoll Butterfly Chair
INQUIRY

Butterfly Chair, 1938 Original Manufacturer: Knoll > Designer: Jorge Hardoy Ferrari > Country: Germany

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Some furniture designs become so ubiquitous that their creators get relegated to the footnotes. Such is the case of the Butterfly chair, originally called the BKF or Hardoy chair after the trio of Le Corbusier alums—Grupo Austral’s Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan, and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy—who created it in Buenos Aires in 1938.

“Most people don’t know it’s Argentinean,” says Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s former chief curator of architecture, of the modern adaptation of Joseph Beverly Fenby’s 19th-century campaign-style Tripolina. “But if we went into the design department and looked at a lineup of chairs, it would be the single most recognizable Latin American design.”