Nice tutorial how to break royalty fees, patents and design protection. This piece does not correspond to the original FJ quality. I'm glad you noticed some of the bad finishing.
I appreciate your comment even though I don't agree with the whole premise. The Finn Juhl chair this is based on was designed/debuted in 1945 and is Danish in origin. My very limited understanding of Danish copyright law is that designs are protected for something much less than 50 years even if extended the maximum number of times. I would agree that the build quality is almost assuredly not the same as the work product coming from Finn Juhl, but I don't think any royalty fees, patents, or European design protections were violated more than 75 years after the design was unveiled. Thank you again for expressing your opinion and concern and for watching the video.
Thank you for commenting, but I am not sure what you mean. My chair was custom ordered in walut with grey fabric. It has also been quite a few years so I am not even aware if they still make this chair.
You payed thousands less, but you didn't save thousands... on the contrary, if you bought an original it would go up in value, yours will only lose money... It will also never really feel like the presence of the original.
I'm 100% fine with mine "losing money" or as I would say "depreciating" if I ever chose to sell it at a loss. I look at it as a chair for regular utilitarian use, not an investment vehicle. Where we are in complete agreement is that they do not have the exact same presence, but the marginal utility difference for me made the replica the right choice for me. Frankly, if I had an authentic Finn Juhl 45 chair, I probably wouldn't use it for fear of damaging it. While we differ in perspectives, I want to thank you for sharing your viewpoint here with others.
