Is it an original?

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)

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.

Following Bauhaus design furniture reproduction you will find in the shop:
Eileen Gray: Bibendum Chair, Non Conformist Chair, Adjustable Table, Folding Table, Tube Light, Lota Sofa, Daybed, Montecarlo Bench, Roque Brune Chair | Le Corbusier: LC 2 Armchair, LC 2 Sofa, LC 3 Armchair, LC 3 Sofa, LC 4 Chaise Lounge, LC 7 Swivel Chair, LC 10 Table, LC 6 Dining Table, Basculant Armchair | Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona Daybed, Barcelona Chair, Barcelona Ottoman, Cantilever Chair, Cantilever Leather Chair, Cocktail Table, Parson Dining Table | Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin Table, Barrel Chair, Coonley Chair | Arne Jacobsen: Chair 3107, N°7 arm chair, Table, Swan chair, Egg chair | Charles Eames: Lounger plus Ottoman, Plywood Chair, LCW Chair, LCW Table, Swivel Chair EA 117, EA 119, EA 105, EA 108, EA 111, Soft Pad chair 205, Soft Pad chair 208, Soft Pad chair 217, Soft Pad chair 219, Soft Pad chair 216, Plywood chair | Philippe Starck: Costes Chair, Pratfall Chair |Eero Saarinen: Tulip Chair, Marble Table, Tulip armchair, Tulip stool, Womb chair | Eero Aarnio: Bubble chair, Ball chair | Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Willow Chair, Hill House Chair, Ingram Chair, Argyle Chair, DS 1 Folding Table, DS 2 Table, Ashwood armchair, Ashwood chair | Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Wagenfeld Lamp | Harry Bertoia: Wire Chair, Diamond Chair | Florence Knoll | George Nelson: Coconut chair, Marshmellow Sofa, Platform bench | Gerrit Rietveld: Red-Blue-Chair, Zig-Zag chair | Poul Kjaerholm | Pierre Paulin: Tulip chair | Poul M Volther | Rene Herbst | Ron Arad | Verner Panton: Panton chair | Gabriel Mucchi: Genni chair | Marcel Breuer | Frank Lloyd Wright: Barrel chair, Coonley Chair, Taliesin Table | Giorgio Gurioli | Poul Kjaerholm | Pierre Paulin: Tulip chair | Poul M Volther | Rene Herbst | Ron Arad | Verner Panton: Panton chair | Gabriel Mucchi: Genni chair | Marcel Breuer | Frank Lloyd Wright: Barrel chair, Coonley Chair, Taliesin Table | Giorgio Gurioli