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Butterfly Chair featured in Town and Country

The reintroduced Butterfly Chair makes its mark in Town and Country’s August 2018 issue

Town and Country's August 2018 issue featured the Butterfly Chair from Knoll in their "T&C Sourecebook," a monthly round-up of design ideas and inspiration. Admiring Cassina's booth at this year's Salone del Mobile, a reproduction of a 1959 dorm room designed by Charlotte Perriand, Town and Country editors saw dorm room design as an appropriate theme for their August T&C Sourcebook. The T&C Sourcebook included a curated selection of pieces, seen at Salone del Mobile 2018, that belong in a modern, avant-garde Milanese dorm room.

The Butterfly Chair in Town and Country August 2018

The Butterfly Chair was designed by Jorge Ferrari Hardoy in 1938 – the same year Knoll was founded – and featured in the company’s catalog from 1947 to 1951. The Butterfly Chair invented a new way of sitting, freeing its users from social formalisms and enabling them to engage in a new kind of conviviality. Minimal and open design would later form the basis for contemporary furniture developed from the 1950s onwards, a style championed by American Modernism. Today, the Butterfly Chair is still recognized as a classic of modernity that enjoys universal success. For its eightieth anniversary, Knoll reintroduced the Butterfly Chair. The classic silhouette – linear, pure and continuous, forming a cocoon type womb – has been reimagined in FilzFelt upholstery.

 

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