Butterfly chair

The Butterfly chair was designed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938[2][3] by the architects Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy [es],[4][5][6] who were working with Le Corbusier's studio, and who formed the architectural collective Grupo Austral [es] in Buenos Aires.

On March 6, 1940, a picture of the chair appeared in the US publication Retailing Daily, where it was described as a "newly invented Argentine easy-chair ... for siesta sitting".

[1] On July 24, 1940, the chair was awarded the 2nd prize by the National Cultural Commission[8] at the 3rd Salón de Artistas Decoradores exhibition in Argentina.

One went to Fallingwater, Edgar Kaufmann Jr.'s home in Pennsylvania (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), another went to MoMA,[4] while the third probably went to Clifford Pascoe of Artek-Pascoe, Inc., New York.

It is also known as the Hardoy chair because an official letter from the firm attributed primary authorship of the design to Ferrari-Hardoy[citation needed].