Clara Porset Butaque Chair

Continued from part 4 the perfect finale for the porset barragán sordo madaleno butaque chair designs chapter is mexican muralist painter and designer xavier guerrero.
Clara porset butaque chair. Butaque lounge chair. The butaque a colonial era hybrid of spanish x frame chairs and pre columbian ritual duhos appeared in late 16th century venezuela and proliferated across trade routes from new orleans to havana. This exhibition is the first to explore mexico s impact on these visionary artists and designers. She is best remembered for her reinterpretation of the butaque chair in the 1940 s and 1950 s a low curved lounge chair with a long history in mexico.
Clara porset was fascinated and inspired by mexico s craft traditions and began looking to traditional forms in order to create designs that would meld modernity with local tradition. Like don shoemaker clara porset was not originally from mexico but adopted it as her home and immersed herself in the culture. After moving to mexico in the mid 1930s cuban designer clara porset began researching the furniture of the region and one low wooden chair captured her interest. She was educated in the united states and cuba and later studied in europe in germany and paris.
Many well known mexican architects such as luis barragán used clara porset s version of the butaque chair in their interiors. Cuban born clara porset was a woman in a man s world. Guerrero was clara porset s silent partner the quiet husband who was behind many of clara porset s iconic furniture designs including some of her best known butaca chair. Stamped made in mex.
Strong willed and eager to be recognized she worked closely with luis barragán designing some of the most iconic modern mexican furniture of the 20th century. The butaque a colonial era. After moving to mexico in the mid 1930s cuban designer clara porset began researching the furniture of the region and one low wooden chair captured her interest. Miraculously one particular chair created by clara porset for barragán looks identical to the caned butaque chairs from veracruz from the early 20 th.
These vintage mid century butaque chairs are attributed to cuban designer clara porset mexico 1940 s. Clara porset may 25 1895 may 17 1981 was a cuban born furniture and interior designer. Indeed she is perhaps best known for her variations on the butaque a low graceful chair with a long history in mexico. Please check on the pictures of the typical jalisco miguelito chairs and the identical butaques produced by luis barragán and clara porset.
At this moment the butaque fever reached its peak and the cloning virus was more vicious than ever.