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It is important to note that Nick Scali Online operates in parallel to our showrooms/stores and the furniture featured on Nick Scali Online can only be purchased online. Click Here to continue through to the Nick Scali online websiteEarlier this year, under the not-so-watchful gaze of bar staff, someone slashed a dozen or so designer lounge seats in Sydney's Park Hyatt Harbourbar. A motive for the attack, which police are investigating, is unclear. But many in Sydney's close-knit design community would like to see it as "design vigilantism", the opening shots in a battle between those who believe in original designs and those who make money by copying them.The seats in question are copies of a design by Charles Wilson, whose award-winning furniture can be found in the Powerhouse Museum and NSW Government House."The whole design community knew that those seats were copies," says the founder of furniture-maker Woodmark, Arne Christiansen. "It's very disappointing to see that a five-star hotel would do that, especially as the copies were such terrible quality."
(A hotel spokeswoman said the fit-out was done in 2007 by a third party; she also said she didn't know who Charles Wilson was.)Copies, fakes, rip-offs, replicas - the debate over what might be called "design appropriation" has been raging since at least 1956, when the impeccably polite Charles Eames appeared with his wife, Ray, on NBC's Home show. Trademark bow tie slightly askew, Charles explained how his moulded plywood chairs were the result of "a mass-production technique", while his plastic seats were an attempt "to take a high-performance material developed during the war and try to make it available to householders at non-military prices".Eames's vision of mass-produced and affordable furniture has indeed come to pass - though not how he might have imagined. Thanks to a boom in the replica market, any fiscally challenged home renovator can buy a knock-off Jacobsen Egg chair or Eero Saarinen Tulip table for a fraction of the price of the original. Who, apart from Paul Keating or Rose Porteous, would pay $6072 for an original Jacobsen Swan chair when you can pick up a replica for $249?
According to the managing director of the colossally successful replica business Matt Blatt, Adam Drexler, "the high selling cost of originals bears no resemblance to the actual manufacturing cost". Thanks to outfits such as his, "the public has become aware that owning good-quality design furniture doesn't mean you have to mortgage your house".Drexler started Matt Blatt 10 years ago when he realised there were loopholes the size of Tasmania in Australia's intellectual property law. "Any item that has an active design registration cannot legally be copied," he explains. But not all designers register and, when they do, it is only good for 10 years. (In Europe, registration lasts 25 years.) "The Eames Lounge chair was designed in 1956," Drexler says. "There is no possibility of an existing design registration for it; hence, we can legally copy it and sell it." The fact that the word "Eames" is trademarked means Drexler cannot sell the Eames Lounge chair. "But we can sell the same design and call it the 'replica Eames Lounge chair' ... you are informing the public that this is not a licensed copy ... and that you are not passing it off as such."
Replicas have been good to Drexler, who reportedly drives a (real) Porsche 911. "But you know," he says, "there are a lot of people out there who don't like us." He receives many lawyers' letters telling him to stop selling unlicensed products. "I once asked my wife if it was good karma to have so many [competitors] hate us," he says. "She replied, 'Think of all the people who love us'. "Richard Munao is not one of those people. He runs Corporate Culture, which has an exclusive licence to sell many iconic furniture designs in Australia. He also founded the Authentic Design Alliance two years ago with four other furniture suppliers. "Replicas are damaging the design industry in this country," Munao says. "What incentive is there for a young designer to innovate, if the minute you develop something successful someone steals it?"It is not just the classics being ripped off, Munao says, but contemporary Australian designers such as Matt Sheargold, Ross Didier and Charles Wilson. "These young designers often work off royalties;
when someone copies their work, they miss out on that money," he says.He insists his store is not losing market share (though notes that Matt Blatt's Leichhardt showroom is 3800 square metres "while ours is only 1100 square metres"). The alliance's real mission, Munao says, is education. "If you look at the countries that are famous for design ... it's because respect for design is ingrained in their culture. We don't have that here. People don't really appreciate the value of original design, which is why we can have the prime minister appear in a photo shoot on a fake Jacobsen Egg chair. That would never happen in Denmark; it would be totally taboo."He also dislikes the word replica. "Replica implies that it's made to the designer's original specifications, or that it is somehow endorsed by the designer." Besides, he says, originals last longer and maintain their resale value.Like many replica barons, Drexler says that stores such as his help democratise fine design. Rather than damage the industry, replicas "educate, develop and broaden tastes in design, which in turn can drive the growth in the overall industry".
Young designers have mixed feelings about knock-offs. "I am not such a purist," Charles Wilson says. "I believe that after a certain period of time, a cantilevered tubular chair becomes a generic type and not a Bauhaus original. There is also an argument that if the companies that produce Eames and Jacobsen weren't living off the royalties from their old designs, they might be more inclined to invest in stuff by new designers."When the designer is alive though, it's different. "That's theft," Wilson says. He discovered the copies of his lounge chairs at the Park Hyatt last year when he took clients there. "For a brief moment I thought I was in luck as the meeting could take place on my own designs." He has no idea who slashed the chairs but hopes it was "someone who feels very strongly about original design".Perhaps the last word should go to to the high priest of haute design himself, Charles Eames, who once remarked: "We want to make the best for the most for the least." Then again, he also said: "What I really want is a black with feeling."