The Farfallina chair, as light as a butterfly, originally named “Borboleta” (butterfly in Portuguese), it was born as a collaboration with the renowned Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Farfallina (italian for “Little butterfly”) presents itself as chair characterized by a minimalistic design and by a peculiar lightness. Its structure in solid wood of natural beech, comes from the Black Forest, with sitting in leather is however still ergonomic and gives the chair comfortability and stability.
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Álvaro Siza
Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos (near Porto), in 1933. From 1949-55 he studied at the School of Architecture, University of Porto. He taught at the School of Architecture (ESBAP) from l966-69 and was appointed Professor of “Construction” in 1976; he taught at the School of Architecture of Porto. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, “Honorary Fellow” of the Royal Institute of British Architects, AIA/American Institute of Architects, Académie d’Architecture de France and European Academy of Sciences and Arts and American Academy of Arts and Letters; Honorary Professor of Southeast University China and China Academy of Art and honorary partner of the Academy of Schools of Architecture and urbanism of Portuguese language. Most of his best known works are located in his hometown Porto: the Boa Nova Tea House (1963), the Faculty of Architecture (1987–93), and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (1997). Between 1995 and 2009, Siza has been working on an architecture museum on Hombroich island, completed in collaboration with Rudolf Finsterwalder. In July 2014 Siza announced his decision to donate the large part of his architectural archive to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Quebec – Canada, in order to make his materials “accessible alongside the work of other modern and contemporary architects”.
