Friday Photo: The Butterfly Effect

Photo: Brian Franczyk / Thea Dickman for Wright

What do you get when you cross Gio Ponti with Piero Fornasetti and a bunch of caterpillars? All we know is that it involves lithographed butterflies—and you can sit on it. Continuing with our collaboration theme, in today’s Friday photo, we bring you the butterfly-adorned, lacquered ash armchair designed by Ponti and Fornasetti around 1951 for Fornasetti Milano. The chair was sold last month for $60,000 (a steal compared to that

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