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Thanks for the nice comments. Mark is an amazing painter and did great work throughout the apartment. Highly recommended!

The table is the round Silverado from CB2 and the Reidar chairs are comfortable enough for the price. The lighting (a work in progress) is the best we could manage for now, it's an awkward space for photos.

Thanks again!

I was just using nisanyan's free wifi to check my email before sitting down to what promises to be an amazing meal on the terrace... When what do I see in my inbox but an AT email that expresses my thoughts exactly. We love cottage number 1! Mezes are here...time to eat.

HeritageWoodworks has a point. "Bland" or not, it's difficult (and pointless) to trace the lineage of basic design motifs like bare trees and bird silhouettes.

Yes, the "copy" is derivative, particularly when applied to wall decals. But derivative of whom? I remember visiting Gwen Frostic's studio as a child in the late seventies, and she most definitely featured a wide range of naked limbs and birdie block prints, reproduced on a holy host of consumer products.

Abstractions of nature, for better or worse, are part of our collective visual vocabulary. Can any designer lay positive claim to a graphic representation of a star or a leaf?

To survive, designers must worry less about copycats and more about the originality and marketability of our own ideas. We must design not just products, but sustainable business models. Counterfeiters will always be with us. Our task is to keep moving and innovating. We must avoid banking our careers on a single, easily reproduced idea.

Must be hotter in Manhattan? Here in Brooklyn, last night was PERFECT open-window sleeping weather.

It would be more durable (and dustable) if she plasticized the paper.

Maybe use "Smooth-Cast 327" as Martha and co. use it to harden these Paper Flowers?

Well said, jplee.

Besides, ALL design and art exist in a continuum. Plenty of designers of now iconic furniture were influenced by those who came before. This is no knock on their originality but an acknowledgment that no one designs in a vacuum. Knock offs, so long as they are not blatent misrepresentations, simply take their place in the spectrum of design from any given era. Good design should stand on it's own merits, and subpar copies will announce themselves soon enough. But some of them are good or good enough, and, dare I say it, may represent some improvement over the original.

At some point an iconic design becomes a kind of norm that the next generation of designers can build off. If that next generation learns its craft making less-than-perfect copies of existing, so be it. Some of them may yet emerge as the next Eames. And in the meantime, the masses get their modern chairs at a pricepoint that's almost affordable.

I'm always skeptical when anyone too energetically defends intellectual property. Sure, protect your trademarks, servicemarks, copyrights and whatnot, but if they're not using your name or engaging in outright plagiarism, what's the issue? Are you afraid the work of the copycats will surpass your own? Worried you'll never have another good idea?

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It's so cute! But I wonder if the stacked mattress is orthopedically correct...

I'm looking at "Slate Teal" from Benjamin Williams for my bedroom. It's sort of similiar, I think.

Better off red.