The countdown has begun to order your classics before the law changes DSW Fibreglass Dining Chair £139.00 + FREE Delivery 130cm Round Tulip Table £2,345.00 + FREE Delivery 80cm Round Tulip Table £1,379.00 + FREE Delivery 160cm Oval Tulip Table £2,548.00 + FREE Delivery DSW Fibreglass Chair - Second Stock (See Description) 120cm Round Tulip Table £1,841.00 + FREE Delivery 244cm Oval Tulip Table £3,874.00 + FREE Delivery 150cm Round Tulip Table £3,352.00 + FREE Delivery 100cm Round Tulip Table £1,610.00 + FREE Delivery 235cm Oval Tulip Table £3,759.00 + FREE Delivery Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Black Powder Coating £900.00 + FREE Delivery Tulip Style Italian Carrara Marble Dining Table Oval £1,134.00 + FREE Delivery RAR Fibreglass Rocking Chair £140.00 + FREE Delivery £180.00 + FREE Delivery Though often solely credited, Charles Eames actually worked in duet with his wife, Ray.
Born in America in 1907 and 1912 respectively, this creative duo made major contribution to the fields of architecture and design - as well as fine art, graphic design and film - over the course of their forty-year careers. Both were educated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where they became close friends with other renowned designers Eero Saarinen and Florence Knoll. The pair were married in 1941. As with their earlier molded plywood work, they pioneered technologies, such as the fibreglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs. Their most famous piece is the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman. Charles Eames Dining Chairs Charles Eames Lounge Chairs Charles Eames Office Chairs Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Black Powder Coating Replica Inspired by Charles Eames Style Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Stainless Steel Replica Inspired by Charles Eames Style DSW Fibreglass Dining Chair Replica Inspired by Charles Eames Style DSW Fibreglass Chair - Second Stock (See Description) Replica Inspired by Charles Eames Style
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The measure also grants designers the same protection as that enjoyed by plastic and graphic artists, and gives them rough parity with writers, musicians, broadcasters and film-makers. Which is all well and good. But the change could precipitate the disappearance of the “Barcelona”-style chair – currently so ubiquitous in building society branches – and the fetishisation of its licensed equivalent, originally conceived by Mies van der Rohe and costing nearly £6,000. The starter-home couple will be denied the pleasure of those Italian chrome standard lamps on long spindly arcs, because a licensed Castiglioni version will cost them more than a grand. The same goes for Anglepoise lamps. And you'll be so scared of scratching your clear Perspex Louis Ghost dining-chairs that you won't dare sit on them. What's at issue is the deal on offer to dead designers' estates. At the moment, the copyright in a creator's work holds for 25 years from his or her death – during which time top-drawer copiers can buy licenses to put the designs into manufacture.
The licensees can then make limited editions, before churning out as many as they can sell for a few thousand quid a time. But after a quarter of a century, it's open season. Then, the knock-off merchants can legally swing into action. And soon your online oulet is advertising, say, a replica-Charles Eames reclining armchair and footstool – perfect examples of the current taste for “mid-century modern” – for around £400, instead of the £5,000 that the licensee's stockist will charge you.From 28 April, furniture designs in Britain will be protected from unlicensed manufacture for 75 years – that's an extra 50. Under the new legislation, retailers selling unlicensed copies – whether classics or bog-standard bog seats – will be liable to fines up to £50,000 and jail terms of up to 10 years. What's more – or less – we'll see fewer representations of the expensive stuff as licensors begin to assert their rights to charge for and control the reproduction of their work in the visual media.
It's doubtful that the Coalition government really considered that ramification, when it decided to repeal Section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1998). Its intention, reasonably enough, was to protect intellectual property. But what it couldn't take account of is the debate within the “design community”. For while Sir Terence may want his chicken-brick to bankroll future generations of Conrans, an interior designer who shall be nameless says it will now be a “nightmare” to prop rooms for his clients at a reasonable mark-up. And, this being the design community, there are socially conscious angles to consider, too. Step forward Stephen Bayley, the design pundit who knows so much about his subject that his email address starts with “guru@”. He agrees that the issue is “complicated” but clearly believes design should have a point beyond the percentage cut: “The essential, defining proposition of modern design is – or rather, was – that an idea can be limitlessly reproduced at low cost,” he says.