Today I did what i do ever saturday...Drive around to every estate sale and most garage sales in my area in search for the holy grail...
Today I pulled up to a house and saw a cool coffee table with a bunch or crap on top of it outside the sale...I was hoping it was a tulip table from a distance when i got near it had stainless steel legs and it was beautiful. I looked on the bottom and it said FH made in denmark. I asked how much to these old nice hippish people and I bought it immediately for 35 bucks...
After some research i realized that it was produced by Fritz Hansen and designed by Arne Jacobsen and made of rose wood. Found on 1st dibs for 3600....which seems a bit unrealistic
http://www.1stdibs.com/nydc_item_detail.php?id=NY10-49-1042
I then told them well im going to keep looking and i walked into the back yard to find 4 Knoll Ferrari Hardoy butterfly chair bases in two different sizes...The man said he wanted $15 a piece which seemed somewhat steep. They need to be repainted. I bought them just to resell because they do need work...Was 60 bucks for 4 a decent deal???
lastly ARE THEY REALLY KNOLL??? how do you tell on these chairs? They are heavy and obviously wrought iron...
thanks..im not a butterfly ch...
thanks..im not a butterfly chair guy either...when i was starting out I saw a guy who had one locally just the frame for 300 so when i saw them i said im sure i can make some money....not trying to get rich but i need to support this hobby and im unemployed right now! D: haha
I bought them, took pics and posted them today. I put the price high because every time I post stuff i get talked down a bit so to compensate for the haggling I priced them high :/
And thanks i love the table I unfortunately will be forced to sell it though due to the fact that I have more furniture right now then I have room and like i said... Unemployed
Butterflies
I love butterfly chairs myself. I used to buy the old frames at auction whenever I saw them and at the height of it I had 11, I think. They're really hard to sell, though. I think most people think they're hard to get up out of, but they're really not if you have the right size cover for them (not too big---big means saggy). I paid between 75 cents and $3 for each of mine and spent time cleaning and repainting them.
I think they probably are easier to sell if you have covers on them, too. You can get really nice covers in cotton canvas or all-weather plastic mesh from Circa50.com for around $50 each. Lots of colors available.
They're steel, not cast iron. Cast iron is too brittle for something like this.
Maybe people also associate them with the newer folding butterflies, which I can't stand---cheap, ubiquitous, and usually dressed in something hideous!
I'm terribly envious of your table purchase, for what it's worth. Makes me miss yard saling. Almost.
Oh, and the butterflies may or may not be Knoll. A lot of different companies made them at the time. Mine had a variety of diameters in the steel and also in the distances between the points. And some points were angled, other straight. It is a mystery....
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