Vitra
Butterfly Stool
Price starting from € 769,00*
*Price valid for the version in maple (cod. 201 370 01).
Simple and elegant, the Butterfly stool is the perfect piece of furniture for any environment. Designed by the Japanese designer Sori Yanagi, it takes the wisdom of the essential from the world of the East, the mastery of removing without depriving the object of its primary meaning. As its name suggests, Butterfly takes inspiration from the wings of a butterfly stretched outwards as in the act of gliding gently on the ground. The silhouette made of maple or rosewood wood was created using the plywood molding techniques developed by Charles & Ray Eames capable of modeling very thin shapes without damaging their resistance in any way.
W.42 x H.39 cm
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Swiss by birth, Vitra is a unique company in many ways. Unique in its home collections, light and colorful; unique in its office furnishings, which combine in a masterful implementation design and ergonomics; unique for the designer parterre that enriches its catalog. Among prestigious historical re-enactments and fruitful collaborations, Vitra has always had the ability to relive the past and project to the future. However, Vitra is unique above all for Rolf Fehlbaum's corporate address, where the company transcends the business to fulfill wider social and cultural functions: the creation of a unique project such as Vitra Campus and the annexed Vitra Design Museum is an example.Read more
Designed by
Sori Yanagi
Sori Yanagi (1915-2011) was one of the great founding fathers of Japanese design. The figure of him embodies a bridge between the Western culture of design, steeped in functionalism and the search for modernity, and the centuries-old Japanese artistic tradition with its attention to the harmony of forms. This synthesis begins to mature in the years immediately following his studies in painting and architecture at the University of Tokyo, when he has the opportunity to work for two years (from 1940 to 1942) for the great French designer Charlotte Perriand, active in Japan at the time. . He lives the pioneering years of the spread of the concept of design in Japan, with the victory of the first prize at the first edition of the "Japanese competition for industrial design" in 1951 and the foundation, together with other colleagues, of the Japan Industrial Designers Association in 1952. He was also one of the first Japanese designers to make himself known abroad: his Butterfly stool, produced by Tendo Mokko, was awarded the Gold Medal at the XI Triennale di Milano in 1957. Very attentive to the Japanese artisan tradition he also designed several tea sets and tableware ceramics, as well as being in charge of the construction of the Olympic Torches for the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics. His most famous creations are now re-edited by Vitra.Read more