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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1566957, member: 6444&quot;]I&#039;m not on facebook (hate the whole idea) so I don&#039;t know the group. Or what they used as reference for that claim? If they have a reference, could you cite it?</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember these chairs from the 60&#039;s; my parents bought a repro, with the hinge. The hinged ones are still popular (and easy to ship from China) - my wife and I bought some for our kids to use when they were little. So in my experience the hinged ones are repro&#039;s. I have an old welded ones that I found a dozen or so years ago, but I never could decide whether it was an original or a repro (since I assume some of the welded ones could be repros too).</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the book &quot;1000 Chairs&quot; by Fiell, the butterfly chair was designed in 1938 by Hardoy, Kurchan and Barnet but not made by them: &quot;Originally manufactured by Artek-Pascoe, production was taken over by Knoll after 1945. Later, Knoll lost a copyright infringement lawsuit which allowed the Butterfly to be copied by a plethora of firms&quot;. They include a picture of the chair in their book with welded bars (no hinge), with the caption &quot;Knoll Associates, New York, c. 1947-1975&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>So unless the facebook poster has better information than the Fiell book, he is incorrect. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie13" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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