Where are the first original leather butterfly chairs?
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The History of the Argentine Butterfly Chair
Born in Buenos Aires in 1938, the butterfly chair became one of the most iconic designs of the 20th century. Here is the full story of the BKF chair — its creators, its journey to MoMA, and its enduring Argentine legacy.
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Butterfly Chair vs Tripolina Chair: What's the Difference?
Both are leather icons — but the butterfly chair and tripolina chair have distinct personalities, histories, and ideal uses. Here's how to choose between them.
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How to Care for Vegetable-Tanned Leather Furniture
Vegetable-tanned leather rewards those who understand it. Learn how to clean, condition, and protect your handcrafted leather furniture so it develops a beautiful patina and lasts for generations.
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Why we consider the leather butterfly chair as the Messi of argentinian design?
The BKF is considered one of the pieces of the most prominent modernist industrial design and distributed the last ha...
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Leather butterfly chair: 80 years and still a classic of modern design
In December of 1938 the BKF was born from ideas that began in Paris, a chair consisting of an iron frame of 12 mm with a leather hanging. The leather was commissioned by a saddler, Rossi Caruso from Buenos Aires, that manufactured the saddles for polo players of the time.
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Jul 28, 2017
Where are the first original butterfly leather chairs?
In 1938, three architects (members of an association known as Grupo Austral, one officially Catalan, Antonio Bonet Castellana, and two Argentines, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy) presented the butterfly chair at a Buenos Aires exhibition. The design so impressed Kaufmann, then an industrial-design curator for the Museum of Modern Art, that he promptly imported one for his parents’ new weekend house, the famous Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
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