Studio Job unveil some new pieces, which are getting an insane amount of design column inches, at the previously mentioned Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The CWG press release reads "Specially designed for this show, Crane Lamp is a floor-standing bronze structure. An enforced cord runs through the core to a hanging bulb. Indicative of Studio Job’s fine attention to detail, small bulbs light the boom point from which the jib hangs. An ancient invention, the crane has a long history of industrial use. Here, it has been miniaturised into an ornamental design piece."
"New", are they sure its not a reworking, an interpretation? because it looks like that to me when i compare it to Curtis Jere's (Co.) orginal.
I know there are differences in realism, interpretation and finish; but making a lamp via the miniaturisation of an specific object that has already been minaturised and made into a lamp? In concept, it is exactly the same. Ideas of ownership and copyright are blurred; my personal attitude is that there are so many designers and makers working that we have to understand we are going to tread on each others toes occasionally. And that is fine, we just have to respect the things that have gone before, and this where the CWG goes a bit wrong.
The Crane light comes in an edition of six, i am imagining are seriously expensive, and will probably end up in museums all over the world. If you are selling super exclusive things, at big prices you should be qualified enough to know that there is respect due to Curtis Jere, and a little nod to them on the press release would have been appropriate.
(I would much rather have the original btw.)
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