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[Oct. 21st, 2005|12:44 pm] |
Classic American design, interpreted for a modern world.
So Target says about its recently stocked line of furniture and housewares by noted designer Thomas O'Brien, but I have a little news for Target: you are selling the wares of a huge phony! Now before anyone gets their panties in a wad, yes, I have advocated knock-offs in the past. I advocate anonymous knock-offs when they bring design to the money-challenged or when they make a jab at designers whose egos have inflated prices.
Jean Prouvé was a master modernist known mostly for his designs of bent steel and massive wood. Pieces he created in his atelier fetch outrageous prices at auction today and are very scarce. O'Brien likes Prouvé so much that he decided to copy one of his coffee tables. So much for "Classic American design." Finding this table at Target is not a bad thing, but O'Brien deserves no accolades whatsoever for putting his name on a stolen design - not an interpreted one. The rest of O'Brien's pieces for Target consist of less blatent but not particularly original work.
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...makes me want to scream...I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
That's the best LJ comment I ever got. I blush with validation.
oish.. do they really bill it as "Classic American Modern"...
Eames withstanding..... "Mid-Century Modern" is NOT the exclusive franchise of ameriKAH.
The hacking bit doesn't bother me as long as you give credit where credit's due.
Shame on O'Brien for not moving his obvious inspiration to the foreground...
Now if Target would only create a knock-off-noguchi. | |
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