Description
BIG BKF Buenos Aires offers a select variety of designer premium leather lounge chairs based on the original BKF (1938) butterfly chair design. We designed & registered our unique disassembled frame. Premium argentinian leather, from grass fed cows & vegetable tanned, is hand-selected & artisanally made. Frames are quickly assembled & disassembled into four pieces, optimal for easy transport & storage. Shipping Weight: 12 lbs or 5,5 kg / per unit. Weight of the chair + leather = 11 kg / 24 lbs. Shipping Times We guarentee our product to arrive within 5 business days from the time of purchase. Eco-Packaging We care about the environment. Big BKF's new eco-friendly tote bag comes with every Big BKF chair purchased & makes for easy portability & storage. Packaging Characteristics: Recyclable: Since it is 100% polypropylene. Waterproof: Do not change their physical properties when immersed in water or other aqueous products. Resistant to chemicals: It is inert to most chemicals, organic & inorganic, including acids, bases & salts. Soft: It resembles, at low weights, the texture of a fabric. Porous: Air permeable & impermeable to small solid particles (dirt, dust, etc.) & liquids under certain conditions. Heat resistant: Does not begin to shrink to 110 º C & melts at 130 º c. The story of the butterfly chair. Three young architects (one Catalan, Antonio Bonet Castellana, & two Argentines, Juan Kurchan & Jorge Ferrari Hardoy) had arrived in Argentina after they met in the Parisian atelier of Swiss architect Le Corbusier. in December of 1938 the BKF was born from ideas that began in Paris, a chair consisting of an iron frame of 12 mm with a leather hanging. The leather was commissioned by a saddler, Rossi Caruso, that manufactured the mounts for polo players of the time. The artisan, Cuatrini, had his workshop in Castelar (Buenos Aires). He not only made Bonet's other models, but also the prototype for the Safari BKF designed by Amancio Williams, which they sent to New York. The BKF chair was on display at Harrods & was presented in the First Hall of Decorative Artists of Buenos Aires in 1943, organized by the National Ministry of Culture, & won First Prize. Antonio Bonet & his daughter. BKF at MoMA. in the sixties, the BKF was produced by Six, a company at which John Kurchan was a partner. Like any piece of culture, the most interesting thing is to find the original, a very difficult thing to do with the BKF. Perhaps the original is the one displayed in the MOMA in New York. This piece of furniture works in environments like a contemporary sculpture, aerial & lightweight, not depending on the architectural box, either inside or outside, & it possesses independence because it can stand on its own & still meld with other furniture without blending in. The BKF represents not only the design to come, also the design criteria characteristic of Argentina: constructive synthesis, functional freedom & current form. The BKF is considered one of the pieces of
