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BKF Chair, 1938-1939
 
 
Image of Grupo Austral (Antoni Bonet, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy). <br><I>BKF Chair, </I>1938-1939 <br>Leather <br>91 x 79 x 67 cm <br>Museu de les Arts Decoratives de Barcelona. MADB 135.390. Donation Victoria Bonet. <br>Image © Guillem, 2006
Grupo Austral (Antoni Bonet, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy).
BKF Chair, 1938-1939
Leather
91 x 79 x 67 cm
Museu de les Arts Decoratives de Barcelona. MADB 135.390. Donation Victoria Bonet.
Image © Guillem, 2006
Grupo Austral (Antoni Bonet, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy).
BKF Chair, 1938-1939

The original design for this popular chair dates from 1938, when GATCPAC member Antoni Bonet left Le Corbusier's studio and went into exile in Buenos Aires. There, together with a group of Argentinean architects, he established the Grupo Austral based on GATCPAC principles.

Named after its three designers, Bonet, Juan Kurchan, and Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, the BKF chair (also known as the “Butterfly chair” and the “Ferrari-Hardoy chair”) is a functional object of elegant simplicity that had enormous potential for mass-production.

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