Roko Bahat

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.

One of their first projects together was a redesign of a classic folding wood-and-canvas military chair known as the "Tripolina" (first introduced in 1877 for the British Army). Patented by Joseph Beverly Fenby, a British engineer the chair subsequently became a battlefield favourite because it was wooden and, crucially, it folded.

The group reimagined the Tripolona with modern-day materials, constructing a folding frame of tubular steel, which was just becoming trendy in furniture use among modernist designers (Marcel Breuer's iconic Cesca chair was introduced in 1928).

In a nod to the human-centric, ergonomically-minded attitudes of modernist design, they created a seat that is at once supportive and comfortable, contorting perfectly to the human frame. The seat is also both collapsible and stackable, making it a flexible and practical accessory.

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