Fake Y-chair


We feel pain when a product created with superior craftmanship and love is being copied like in this case. The Y chair // “Wishbone Chair” designed by Danish legend Hans J. Wegner has been produced by our Danish colleagues Carl Hansen www.carlhansen.com for almost 60 years.

We love the attention to details and feel almost sick seeing how the Copycat cut corners and take shortcuts trying to duplicate such an icon as the Y chair. Potential owners of this copy will learn it the hard way, since only true quality stand the test of time.

To all design fans – do not believe all you see, get close and FEEL it.
To the Copycats – If you mess with our friends you mess with us!!!!

4 Responses to “Fake Y-chair”


  1. 1 Anti Corporatist August 20, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Created with “superior craftsmanship and love” …
    What do you mean by created? Designed or produced?

    As for the design, of the 400 designs of Hans Wegner, only a few are really valuable, most are rubbish and you do not even want to see them. But fair enough, some designs are absolute masterpieces. However, the poor man is death for some time now, and he will not be compensated with your money.

    So the design may well be with craftsmanship and love, but today’s production is with CNC machines and nothing else. Some copies are rubbish, some, even Chinese, are perfect and can not even be distinguished from the so-called original, i.e. the overpriced Carl Hansen pieces.

    There is no reason people should pay 3 or 4 times the fair production/market price, only to compensate Danish corporatism, i.e. the overpaid trade union protected Danish workers, or the profits of Carl Hansen & Co. What exactly has Carl Hansen ever done to deserve the loads of money they suck out of our pockets? Protected the Danish way of life? How democratic!

    Fortunately there is a democratic choice for the rest of us (the non-snobs): go to the UK where furniture designs are not protected by the copyright/author’s law, i.e. for 75 years after the designer’s death, and pay 1/4 of the Danish price. It is perfectly legal, and perfectly reasonable.

    So to all design fans, go for it, feel the difference if you can and decide for yourself whether or not you are a snob.

  2. 2 SpottedByNormannCopenhagen August 20, 2010 at 9:55 am

    Hi Anti Corporatist,

    This has nothing to do with taste of design or the price tag on the product. It has to do with stealing from others. We do not in any way support those who copy/steal a design and reproduce it. No matter where in the world this takes place – it’s still stealing.
    It’s that simple.

  3. 3 hfng January 5, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Hi, how can you tell if it is a fake or a real one? Is there something specific to look out for? Thanks for your advice.

  4. 4 Megan February 16, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Hmmm, speaking of ‘stealing’ — the chair design basically originated in the Ming Dynasty…long before the Danes co-opted it. Today we are basically bickering over a reproduction of a reproduction.


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