Produced by Knoll for 71 years and relentlessly cloned by others, the perch has lost its luster, say some. Fisk’s alternative: The Butaque Chair by Cuban-born designer Clara Porset. A modern take on a ...

According to the designers, the chairs, which sit low and have a deep recline, represent Porset’s design philosophy by ...

Notably, her 1947 butaque, a low, curved chair that is widely imitated though not always properly attributed, now has pride of place in the show and in the museum's permanent collection.

The show features a new series of semi-abstract drawings, custom-fabricated chandeliers – one encircled by modernist chairs based on the Latin American butaque (the only part of the show not designed ...

Notably, her 1947 butaque, a low, curved chair that is widely imitated though not always properly attributed, now has pride of place in the show and in the museum's permanent collection. Porset, who ...