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William Spratling 1940s Mexican Butaque Chair
By William Spratling
Located in San Francisco, CA
This design simplified the butaque, a traditional Mexican and Spanish Colonial chair style, (also sometimes called a Campeche chair) characterized by its low-slung, curved profile.
Brass
Clara Porset's Mexican Butaque Chair, licensed reedition by Luteca
By Luteca Furniture, Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fierce proponent of historical craft traditions, Clara Porset created wholly contemporary versions of the classic Mexican vernacular forms including the colonial butaque chair, its...
Hide, Maple
Tropical Hardwood and Rattan, Butaque Chair, Outdoor Use, Licensed Reedition
By Clara Porset, Luteca Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fierce proponent of historical craft traditions, Clara Porset created wholly contemporary versions of the classic Mexican vernacular forms including the colonial butaque chair, its...
Rattan, Hardwood
William Spratling 1940s Taxco Sabino Wood And Leather Miguelito Butaque Chair
By William Spratling
Located in Mexico City, MX
A 1940's sabino wood and leather "Miguelito" butaque chair by American designer, jeweller and silversmith William Spratling.
Iron
Clara Porset's Mexican Walnut & Hemp Butaque Chair, licensed reedition by Luteca
By Luteca Furniture, Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fierce proponent of historical craft traditions, Clara Porset created wholly contemporary versions of the classic Mexican vernacular forms including the colonial butaque chair, its...
Walnut, Hemp
Ricardo Legorreta 'Butaque' Lounge Chair in Oak and Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Ricardo Legorreta for Legorreta Arquitecto, 'Butaque' lounge chair, oak, leather, Mexico, 1997 This Butaque lounge chair was designed by Ricardo Legorreta and made by Legorreta Arqu...
Leather, Oak
Modernist Mexican San Miguel Lounge Chair by Michael van Beuren from Luteca
By Luteca Furniture, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The San Miguel lounge chair is a timeless mid-century Mexican piece inspired by the classic Latin American Butaque chair famed by the likes of 20th Century Mexican architect Luis Bar...
Teak
Don Shoemaker Sling Sloucher Chairs Señal, Sculptural and Organic, Mexico
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Santa Gertrudis, Baleares
Described as a modernist version of the Mexican Butaque chair, made of Mexican local woods, these chairs are definitely outstanding pieces.
Leather, Wood
Clara Porset 'Butaque' Lounge Chair - II
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clara Porset 'Butaque' lounge chair c.1940s, Mexico. The lounge chair features a curvaceous solid cypress wood frame with the original brown saddle leather sling seat.
Leather, Cypress
Clara Porset 'Butaque' Lounge Chair - I
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clara Porset 'Butaque' lounge chair c.1940s, Mexico. The lounge chair features a curvaceous solid cypress wood frame with the original brown saddle leather sling seat.
Leather, Cypress
Mexican “Butaque” Armchair In the Style of William Spratling Taxco.
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
There is no chair more deeply rooted in Mexican vernacular design than the butaque, a form that instantly evokes hacienda life, shaded patios, and a way of living shaped by tradition...
Wood
Clara Porset Butaque Lounge Chair, Cypress & Leather, Mexico, 1940s
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clara Porset 'Butaque' lounge chair c.1940s, Mexico. The lounge chair features a curvaceous solid cypress wood frame with the original brown saddle leather sling seat.
Leather, Cypress
Spanish Colonial Leather Wood Chair Miguelito Butaque 1940s
By Clara Porset
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a Vintage Mexican Leather Colonial Wood Chair Style Miguelito Butaque, Mexico circa the 1940s .
Leather, Wood
Pair of "Miguelito" Butaque Chairs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of leather Miguelito Butaque chairs from Mexico city. Arm height is 20.25".
Leather, Wood
Butaque Chair by William Spratling
By William Spratling
Located in Mexico City, DF
There is no more vernacular a chair of Mexico than ‘la butaque,’ which instantly conjures up images of scenes at the hacienda.
Brass
Unavailable
H 28 in W 27 in D 22 in
Pair of Good Vintage Mexican Butaque Campeche Chairs - Circa 1940's
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of rare mid century Mexican Campeche chairs in rosewood with beautiful hand tooled and embossed leather Azteca motifs - each with folding wood frames. Dimensions: 28 inches...
Leather, Rosewood
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H 34.26 in W 20.87 in D 27.17 in
Unique Pair of 1940s Leather Miguelito Butaque Chairs from Mexico
Located in Berlin, DE
Amazing pair of Miguelito Butaque chairs from Mexico. Leather with stunning patina that feels like a drum skin on a beautiful oak base.
Leather, Oak
Butaque Chair in the Style of Clara Porset
By Clara Porset
Located in San Diego, CA
An amazingly cool Mexican Modernist 1970s Butaque chair in the style of Clara Porset. Beautiful Yellowish-tan leather wrapped over the solid wood frame.
Leather, Mahogany
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H 29.34 in W 22.05 in D 26.38 in
William Spratling 1940s Taxco Sabino Wood And Leather Miguelito Butaque Chair
By William Spratling
Located in Mexico City, MX
A 1940's sabino wood and leather "Miguelito" butaque chair by American designer, jeweller and silversmith William Spratling.
Iron
Primitive Mexican Butaque Leather Sling Chairs, 1970s
By Luis Barragan
Located in Coronado, CA
A wonderful pair of leather butaque chairs made in Mexico in the 1970s. Delightful rustic, primitive aesthetic.
Leather, Wood
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H 42.25 in W 29.5 in D 34.25 in
Clara Porset Patinated Leather and Cypress 'Butaque' Armchair, Mexico, c. 1947
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In the mid-1930s after moving to Mexico, Cuban born designer Clara Porset began researching the furniture of the region and the 'Butaque' chair captured her interest. A Colonial-era ...
Leather, Wood
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H 42.25 in W 29.5 in D 34.25 in
Clara Porset Patinated Leather and Cypress 'Butaque' Armchair, Mexico, c. 1947
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Once the Butaque chair made its way to the U.S., where it was called the Campeche (or Campeachy) chair, Thomas Jefferson acquired one in 1819 and had it copied and adapted.
Leather, Wood
“San Miguelito” Chair by Michael van Beuren
By Don S. Shoemaker, Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The chair is van Beuren’s interpretation of the traditional butaca, or butaque chair, which was popular along coastal areas in Mexico since colonial times.
Leather, Wood, Pine
Michael van Beuren “San Miguelito” Chair
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The chair is van Beuren’s interpretation of the traditional butaca, or butaque chair, which was popular along coastal areas in Mexico since colonial times.
Leather, Pine
Clara Porset 'Butaque' Lounge Chair
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clara Porset 'Butaque' lounge chair c.1940s, Mexico. The lounge chair features a curvaceous solid cypress wood frame with the original brown saddle leather sling seat.
Steel
Clara Porset Style Butaque Chair
By Michael van Beuren, Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Clara Porset style butaque chair c.1970s, Mexico. The lounge chair features a curvaceous solid mahogany frame with the original brown saddle leather sling seat.
Leather, Mahogany
William Spratling Mexican Butaque Chair, Signed, 1940s
By William Spratling
Located in Coronado, CA
A rare, signed Butaque chair designed by William Spratling, produced in his workshop in Taxco, Mexico in the 1940’s.
Leather, Pine
Pair of Clara Porset Style Butaque Lounge Armchairs with Aged Leather
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautiful pair of Clara Porset style Butaque chairs are in gorgeous aged leather, stained wood and brass rivets.
Leather, Wood
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H 36.23 in W 28.15 in D 37.8 in
Butaque Colonial Chairs, Indonesia Second Half of the 20th Century
Located in Utrecht, NL
These chairs are aesthetically arresting and design-wise, a mixture of the iconic butaque chair and Indonesian colonial planter chairs.
Leather, Wood
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H 42.25 in W 29.5 in D 34.25 in
Clara Porset Patinated Leather and Cypress 'Butaque' Armchair, Mexico, c. 1947
By Clara Porset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Once the Butaque chair made its way to the U.S., where it was called the Campeche (or Campeachy) chair, Thomas Jefferson acquired one in 1819 and had it copied and adapted.
Leather, Wood
Fantastic Large Butaque Atributed to Ricardo Legorreta
By Ricardo Legoretta
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
The butaque chair is originally an example of the mestizo culture in Mexico.
Leather
Butaque Leather Lounge Chair in the Manner of William Spratling
By William Spratling
Located in Atlanta, GA
Butaque leather lounge chair, in the manner of William Spratling, Mexican, circa 1940s.
Brass
Butaque Lounge Chair in the Style of Clara Porset, Saddle Leather
By Clara Porset
Located in Miami, FL
Wood and leather lounge chair in the style of Clara Porset.
Leather, Wood
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H 35.25 in W 25.75 in D 31.75 in
Pair of Butaque Lounge Chairs in the Style of Clara Porset, Saddle Leather
By Clara Porset
Located in Miami, FL
Great pair of lounge chairs, saddle leather has a great patina. Ready for a new home.
Leather, Wood
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H 35.43 in W 21.65 in D 24.4 in
Pierre Lottier Leather Oak Chairs Highback For Valmazan, Spain 1950
By Valmazan, Pierre Lottier
Located in Vienna, AT
Original, labelled pair of Pierre Lottier chairs for Almazan, Spain Mid Century Rare high-back version of a pair of cognac leather Butaque oak chairs in original great condition, be...
Leather, Oak
Clara Porset Steel Desk for DM Nacional Company
By Clara Porset
Located in Mexico City, MX
Indeed, she is perhaps best known for her variations on the butaque, a low, graceful chair with a long history in Mexico.
Steel
Michael Van Beuren Chair for Domus
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in New York, NY
Van Beuren was the subject of a 2010 solo exhibition at Mexico's Museo Franz Mayer, titled "Footprints of the Bauhaus." The present chair, a rarely seen example, melds the traditiona...
Pine, Rush
Butaque Chair from the Rosa and Miguel Covarruvias Personal Collection
By Miguel Covarrubias
Located in Mexico City, DF
Butaque chair from the Rosa and Miguel Covarruvias personal collection.
Clara Porset "Butaque" Chair
Located in Treasure Island, CA
Clara Porset was Mexico's leading furniture designer of the 1940's and 1950's. She was chosen by Eliot Noyes as Mexico's entry for the MOMA's Organic Design contest of 1941 (the same...
Wood
Pair of Spratling Chairs
By William Spratling
Located in Santa Fe, NM
In the early 1930s, Spratling created a modern redesign of the Classic Spanish Colonial Campeche (a.k.a. butaque) chair by eliminating ornamentation, commissioning local carpenters t...
Leather, Wood
Mexican Deerskin Butaque Rocking Chair
Located in San Miguel Allende, GTO
Made in Campache, Mexico circa 1900
Wood
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