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Next to it, a butterfly chair is strategically placed underneath the shade of a towering fig tree.

Early designs included the Nickel couch, featuring a gently rounded back that curves into an elegantly bulbous armrest on one end, and the barrel-back Half Dollar chair, whose gracefully spreading sides give the piece its other name, the Butterfly chair.

He was in architecture school at Syracuse University then, and he chose the bed mostly because it was low and fit the look he was after: He had wrapped his room in red burlap, and the décor included a fish tank, a butterfly chair and a pair of Mexican huaraches.

Skeezie gives Joe’s room the once-over and starts ticking off what he eyes: books, CDs, computer, tie-dyed butterfly chair with smiley face pillow, big stuffed flamingo on the bed, antique floor lamp with fringed shade, posters of Madonna and Cher and Leonardo DiCaprio in a T-shirt.

This scaled-down butterfly chair offers a full-size back rest and 15 inches of elevation, yet weighs a modest 3.3 pounds and collapses to fit in a bag just 27 inches tall and 6 inches thick.