WELCOME TO MUUMUU DESIGN
BKF BUTTERFLY chair covers  AND TRIPOLINA CHAIR SPECIALIST

BUTTERFLY CHAIRS
In 2008, muumuu design began making high quality replicas of the iconic original BKF design Butterfly chairs in Sydney, Australia.
Creating covers for them by hand from leather hides and various fabrics, the business grew with the resurgence of widespread popularity for 20th century design.
Always working from home, chairs took over the house, garage, and a container was required in the driveway and a new shed in the garden to house the stock of frames, the cutting and sewing workshop and supplies of fabric and leather. 
muumuu butterfly chairs were sent far and wide - all over Australia and to many destinations overseas.
 To begin with, trying to wrap and send the beautiful chairs was not at all easy and it took years before I actually managed to have boxes made for transporting them in a way that couriers were able to dispatch them to customers without too many complaints. I spent many hours, many days, weeks, lugging the huge boxes about.
And then, I moved to the country! The logistics of storage and distribution became impossible - the transport too difficult to deal with. 
So muumuu BKF butterfly chair frames are at an end since early last year 2019. 
Now it is 2020. muumuu continues to custom make Butterfly chair covers - for existing frames only. 
The wave of interest in owning a few Butterfly chairs for the outdoor living space or stylish interior, has not subsided. In the more recent years, a plethora of versions of the Butterfly chair have flooded into the market, from countries like China and India. Mostly they are quite different in detail to the original design. The quality varies enormously as does the shape! 

TRIPOLINA FOLDING CHAIRS
​About 2012 an upholsterer in Sydney brought me a customers old chair frame and asked could I make a cover for it, the principle design being similar to the Butterfly chair covers. I had never seen this type of chair and fell in love with the way it worked and the comfort it offered not to mention the practicality of the idea behind it. I began researching the history and was intrigued.
With bits and pieces from the hardware shop, tape measure, electric drill, sandpaper etc. I made my first TRIPOLINA.
The early ones that muumuu made, by hand, were of marine ply, and stainless steel, as the costs of getting hardwood frame members cut was going to be astronomical! It was an experiment.
Through word of mouth and the "net", interest began to grow and I was selling Tripolina chairs faster than I could make them. (Making each chair by hand was labour intensive to say the least).
In 2015 muumuu began getting the Tripolina frames custom made in Java from sustainably produced Teak. 
The covers I still continue to make in my studio as leather varies enormously - each cover needs to be cut according to the stiffness/suppleness and stretchability of the hide. I also make canvas covers.
In 2019, muumuu moved to a farm in the country. The Tripolina chair travels easily and I continue to make both frames and a limitless (almost ) range of covers, which can be sent out in the post!
The Tripolina is a beautiful piece of furniture - functional, practical and manageable - its folding frame and changeable covers, it sits perfectly in an elegant indoor room , on a casual verandah, or a rustic outdoor site ....
In the past few years I have had the honour of my Tripolina chairs being chosen  for numerous high end Australian resorts!!

Butterfly chair cover specialist - muumuu design

Tripolina Leather trimmed Sunbrella canvas on Teak at BULLO RIVER STATION , NT. Australia Photo thanks to Sibella Court Society Inc

Tripolina at Freycinet, Tasmania

Tripolina Folding Campaign Butterfly Chair - Kangaroo hide cover

Rawloom tan leather trim Tripolina Campagn chair

Tanleather trim Khaki Tripolina Campaign chair

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 muumuu design specialises in making the highest quality covers for early 20thC design BKF BUTTERFLY CHAIRS and TRIPOLINA folding butterfly chairs as well as individually handmade covers for these iconic chairs in cowhide, leather, kangaroo and canvas.
 Australia.
​ EMAIL: muumuudesign1@gmail.com

muumuu - Handmade Rattan and Mahogany HAVANA

muumuu Butterfly Chair - premium leather

muumuu canvas butterfly chairs

Butterfly Chair by muumuu - Shadecloth mesh outdoor butterfly chairs

Returns policy: Products are non-refundable. 

muumuu.net.au is the new HOME for MUUMUU DESIGN - combining muumuubutterflychairs.com.au and tripolinachair.com.au into one site.

Hopefully, being all in one place now, you can find the chairs and information you seek but please do not hesitate to ask for a personal response to any questions by email to muumuudesign1@gmail.com 

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