Quote Originally Posted by Charles Edward View Post
$179 bucks:

https://www.roveconcepts.com/wishbon...QcQAvD_BwE&aid[12]=173&aid[35]=445

$339 bucks:

https://www.roveconcepts.com/round-chair

These chairs are a masterpiece of industrial design as they were meant to be -- high style, but could be (and are being) produced in volume and thus made affordable. Designing the work flow and shop floor processes to produce dozens of these a day is the most remarkable thing about them, beyond the original design.

Logic is being turned a bit on its head when the hand-made article is being made to match the original, machine-made one, and one designed for machine manufacturing in the first place.

I'd love to see a virtuoso jig maker take a crack at these and knock out two dozen a week in his or her garage shop. Now THAT would be quite the accomplishment.
If you like the Wegner chairs, there are a number of options:

1) You buy a cheap imitation for a few hundred dollars. Made from wood robbed from the jungles of Africa or the Amazon, made by people who work under labor conditions that you can question. You are not annoyed by sloppily made connections and diverging dimensions. Moreover, you don't worry about the copyright on the design. 2) You have the budget and buy a chair made by the Danish copyright holder for thousands of dollars. Made from certified wood by professionals who work under controlled Scandinavian working conditions for a decent wage. You know how to appreciate quality. 3) you receive or inherit one for free from a relation who made it from wood of known origin. The parts of the wood have been carefully selected so that the pattern ends up in the right place on the chair. It was made with you in mind.

I am sure that the third option will be appreciated the most, especially if the quality matches that of the professional Danish craftsmen, but also if it shows some characteristics of an amateur.

Best wishes for 2024 from a frequent reader of this forum.

Daan