Rob Pluhowski's furniture

[rs312]

Compared to

https://www.vitra.com/en-ch/living?c=CH&u=/

or this

http://www.usm.com/

the pricing is fair.

[SHARKEISHA]

Hokay you do know you furniture^

I heard Forrest Kirby used to have a furniture shop back in the day with some other skaters...

Rob killing it!

[sleepypancakes]

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Nice stuff. It's a bummer that nice and timeless furniture can be quite pricey.

[close]

It really is. I would love to afford some furniture pieces but I am afraid to even get into this type of stuff as it just gets expensive. Even Pepper's lamps are up to a grand. Must be cool to know how to make all that.

To be fair, there are usually reasons why these things are priced how they are. Quality and timeless usually come from craft and material, all of which shoot not only the price, but the value, way up.

[Fongstarr.]

^^^Very true. I would think most of the cost is just from labor alone. I remember trying to make a fun box from scratch. Couldn't even get that shit all leveled out.

[Chris Hansen is back]

Using something as iconic as a Herman Miller Airia desk to "borrow" for a design is pretty suspect. Furniture isn't like contemporary art where appropriation and quoting is an established mode. This is just a really nice knock-off.

[sleepypancakes]

Using something as iconic as a Herman Miller Airia desk to "borrow" for a design is pretty suspect. Furniture isn't like contemporary art where appropriation and quoting is an established mode. This is just a really nice knock-off.

I'd agree with that, wonder what the price difference is? I don't have the energy to look it up right now.

And Fongstar, I took some furniture design courses when I was getting my degree, just two, as electives, and it's really really difficult to get everything precise without using computers to do all the measuring for you. The actual craft just comes from experience. I didn't do very well in those classes.

[Chris Hansen is back]

The real Mccoy is $2200, but made on an assembly line. An all walnut hand-crafted version would be far, far more.

[Chris Hansen is back]

It's like if a Canal St. LV bag was hand made with really nice leather. Kinda dumb, Rob. Work with a designer, and make something fresh.

[SHARKEISHA]

Knock off or inspired by? All great designers borrow from each other. If you are a real contemporary furniture buff then you would know that. That is how design trends work you see something similar.