Miniatures Butterfly Stool

$490
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For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of milestones in furniture design from its collection.
Item No. VT-MINIBTTF
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The Miniatures Collection encapsulates the entire history of industrial furniture design – moving from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the Bauhaus and New Objectivity, from Radical Design and Postmodernism all the way up to the present day.

Exactly one-sixth the size of the historical originals, the chairs are all true to scale and precisely recreate the smallest details of construction, material and colour.

In view of the above Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool can be described as unusual on a number of counts. The designer adopts a familiar Western shape and combines it with a technique employed by Charles and Ray Eames which involves using bent plywood for industrial manufacture.

The stool is unusually cleverly constructed, with two identical shapes connected axisymmetrically by means of two screws underneath the seat and a screwed on brass rod. This creates a shape reminiscent in some ways of the torii (gates) to Shinto shrines, which gives the stool an oriental look. At the same time it calls to mind the wings of a butterfly, hence its name. The stool was awarded the gold medal at the 1957 Milan triennial.

Product ID: 1041836

Dimensions

Width: 57mm
Depth: 69mm
Height: 79mm

Warranty

This product is covered by a 2-year conditional warranty.

Sustainability

Our operations are carbon neutral. The local and international freight we organise to deliver this product to you will be offset through the purchase of Verified Carbon Standard carbon credits.


Vitra Miniatures Collection, Group
Vitra Miniatures Collection, Group
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