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FAKE — Intervention on an Icon**
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ProfessionalMaastricht, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since March 2024 • 19 sales
Product description
An imitation icon was reborn as art—a radical, sculptural chair that honestly speaks out about what the industry tries to hide.
- Unique – handmade artistic intervention on a mass-produced frame
- Conceptual & sculptural – cut-out word FAKE as a critique of design copies
- Reinterpretation – uses what was already there; from imitation to autonomy
Description
presents a chair that does not try to hide what it is. The frame is derived from one of the most copied design models in the world—imitated so often that the distinction between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ has virtually evaporated. Where the original was once an icon, imitation has now become the norm.
This intervention intervenes precisely there: in the area where authenticity dissolves and reproduction prevails.
By retaining the imitation skeleton but radically reinterpreting the seating parts, the chair is not restored but unmasked. The cut-out word FAKE turns the object into a sculptural confession *and* a critique of an industry that copies endlessly, just like the consumer who accepts it without thinking.
Is this plagiarism of plagiarism? A violation of a violation? Or actually a form of liberation?
The intervention posits that as soon as a copy is so widespread that it drowns out the original, a new intervention is no longer a transgression but a reinterpretation of a cultural reflex.
FAKE transforms a mass-produced imitation into a unique, critical, aesthetic object. With one disruptive question:
"can something that is not real still be authentic?"
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsBlackMaterialSkaiNumber of items1Height80 cmWidth74 cmDepth73 cmSeat height40 cm
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About this seller
ProfessionalMaastricht, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since March 2024 • 19 sales