Refresh yourself with the Intriguing Facts about Butterfly Chair

The interior of our home, the beauty, and the class – each of these factors is dependent a lot on the choices you make – be it for painting or for selecting furniture. But I have a core belief that a house can turn into the perfect home with the right selection of furniture.

Amongst many other types of furniture, the Butterfly Chair should be one. These chairs can give the fusion look of modish and traditional feel in your home! I will surely talk in detail about “Why to buy Butterfly Chair for your Home”; but that will be on my next blog. Before that, don’t you wanna know the interesting history of these chairs!!

Personally saying, whenever I have planned to buy something for my home, especially for the furniture and cars, I always wanted to know the back-story of them! That’s why, I thought, maybe you will be also interested in gathering a little bit of knowledge about butterfly chairs. Don’t worry, this will not be boring as I have filled this blog with some striking facts which will both tell you the background of butterfly chairs and will also grow your interest!!

So let’s move forward to know the unknowns…

Do you know the Butterfly Chair also has a Nickname!!!

Yes, actually!! Just as Lord Krishna has a lot of names, butterfly chairs are also like that. They are called by several names. Don’t you want to know how differently they are called!!! Check it out…

·         Hardoy Chair

·         Sling Chair

·         BKF Chair

·         Nap Chair

These images and the design of butterfly chairs will tell you why they are called Sling or Nap Chair; but for BKF or Hardoy Chair, there is another story. Read on to know…

The Journey of Butterfly Chairs

Back in the year 1938, Buenos Aires was about to build a big project by Grupo Austral. When the three owners of this group, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet got together, their architectural minds clicked to make the timeless design of butterfly chairs. And since then, it has been flaunting the interior of homes and has never looked back!

Here is something more:

• ·         Though butterfly chairs were manufactured for the project, they first came in front of the world in the year 1940 at the design exhibition – 3^rd Salon de Artistas Decoradores.
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• ·         After that, the then Curator of Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Edgar Kaufmann jr. fell in love with the design and bought two of them – one he kept at Fallingwater, his parent’s house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; and the other one was kept at MoMA’s collection.
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• ·         Butterfly Chair is also called BKF Chair with the initials of the three designers.
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• ·         Later Hardoy got the primary authorship of the design of this chair. That’s why it is also often called Hardoy Chair as well.

Well, this is not the end, there are more…

This Chair also has got an Idol

And what idols do in your life!! They inspire us to the highest, right!! Just like that, Butterfly Chairs were also designed with the huge inspiration achieved from the furniture of British military – the Tripolina Chair. Though motivated, it has been differentiated by the sleek metal design and customizable covers and gathered worldwide popularity.

Do you know how many of them were created in the first hand!!!

You will be surprised to know that the three architects of Grupo Austral did not design a single more or less than their headcount – there were only 3 Butterfly Chairs manufactured by them.

P.S. I have told you about the two chairs and where they are now!! But the world actually has no clue about where is the third one!! It is an unsolved mystery of growing age with the time passing by…

Whatever be it, the Butterfly Chair has gathered immense love globally and is still flourishing. I can give you an ultimate destination address of these chairs from where you can easily choose and buy them sitting at one corner of your room – archetypen.ch. They have a wide collection which will be surely beneficial for you to select from.

I will soon come back with my next blog; till then you stay tuned to my updates and make your home fly away from the crowd with the inclusion of Butterfly Chair.

Cheers!!