Lina Bo Bardi

After the Estúdio Palma period, Lina no longer wanted to produce pieces for individuals. The only exception was the garden lounger with steel frame, leather seat, and unusual spring suspension designed and produced for the friend Valéria Cirell, whose house Lina had built in a residential area of São Paulo (Casa Cirell, 1958). Reminiscent of the 19th century Tripolina and the Argentinian Butterfly chair, the frame is distinctive and ingenious. Recent re- search proves that she created the concept several years earlier, probably during the Estúdio Palma period.
The rightful attribution of this model to Lina Bo Bardi is a result of the keen research conducted by Anna Carboncini (IB Archive) for Nilufar gallery: a light pencil hand-drawing was found on the back of a page among approx 6000 of Lina’s letters, scribbles, sketches and drawings archived, therefore had longtime been overlooked.