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B.K.F. Chair, aka Butterfly chair, (1938) by Antonio Bonet, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and Juan Kurchan, Buenos Aires

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Butterfly Chair by Antonio Bonet. - source Sameh Shawky.

La Ricarda | Antonio Bonet

Barcelona | Spain | 1962

After his studies in Barcelona, Antonio Bonet joined forces with Josep Lluis Sert, wo worked on the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. After a period of working in Le Corbusier’s atelier, Bonet moved to Argentina for a number of years. La Ricarda, Bonet’s most famous house, was designed and built in a transitional period during which the architect relocated back to Spain and the city of his birth. La Ricarda is a large family home set within spacious grounds not far from Barcelona; the small airfield nearby has since grown into an international airport. The residence was commissioned by the Gomis family, who were great supporters of the arts - including architecture and music. Bonet created a series of single-storey pavilions with vaulted roofs, interspersed with terraces and outdoor rooms. There was a pavilion devoted to the master suite, another for the children and a larger structure dedicated to the principal living spaces, which were both fluid and spacious enough to accomodate social gatherings and concerts. The vaulted roofs add a sculptural dimension, while the extensive use of lattice windows with ceramic, glass and stained-glass blocks add colour and texture throughout as well as filtering the summer sunshine.

Images: © Símon García

Words: © thegreatdaydreamer