This question quite often arises regarding modern reeditions of historical furniture designs.
All you can buy nowadays, non regarding from whom and at whatever price, is nothing but a revised reproduction or reedition of furniture designs and prototypes made some decades ago.
In most cases these reproductions are all but exactly according to the original design. When Breuer made his first Wassily Chairs and Corbusier's assistants tried to bend tubes for the first frames of his armchairs, these designs were in an experimental status, far away from beeing suitable for everyday use.
More: the prototypes look so ugly, their designer were mocked for making "hospital furniture". Looking at the pictures on the right side, you may agree.
(Pictures taken at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Back then it was neither possible to make upholsteries that kept their shape, nor unvisible weldings or flawless chrome platings. This is why most of the "originals" are painted gray.
Nowadays, polyurethane foams and sophisticated metal processing technology allow to make perfect, comfortable furniture for a demanding public.
All this at an affordable price on top. Hence, it definitely looks and feels different as the few originals produced in the twenties and thirties.
This however is common to all producers of modern classic furniture, even if they are claiming to make "the one and only authentic" copy of a funiture design.
We think it to be ridiculous to stamp the signature of a designer into the frames of furniture he has never designed, such as the whole discussion about authenticity where there is no more. With the exception of "Thonet", none of the manufacturers can even claim to have been producing their classics right from the start.
Buying "authorized copies" therefore, means nothing more than that you will get very well made furniture.
So will you when buying from us, but for much less, since we have a much leaner distribution system.
