{"id":21294,"date":"2016-07-29T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/buy-your-design-classic-now-its-about-to-rocket-in-price\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:11:25","slug":"buy-your-design-classic-now-its-about-to-rocket-in-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/buy-your-design-classic-now-its-about-to-rocket-in-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy your design classic now \u2013 it\u2019s about to rocket in price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nChanges to copyright laws in the UK and EU mean that cheaper replicas of the Barcelona chair or an Eileen Gray table will no longer be availableMid-century design classics, such as Charles Eames chairs, Eileen Gray tables and Arco lamps are set to rocket in price, following EU regulations which came into force this week that extend the copyright on furniture from 25 years to 70 years after the death of a designer. But shoppers have six months to snap up a replica bargain, as the UK has given retailers a six-month transitionary period to clear their existing stock.Take, for example, the famous Eames walnut and leather armchair with matching ottoman. The officially licensed and copyrighted producer, Vitra, sells them for \u00a36,814 in John Lewis. Yet copies made in Chinese factories sell over the internet and in some stores for as little as \u00a3399. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/jul\/29\/buy-design-classic-now-about-to-rocket-in-price-copyright-law\" target=\"_blank\">Buy your design classic now \u2013 it\u2019s about to rocket in price<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Changes to copyright laws in the UK and EU mean that cheaper replicas of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-5xs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53978,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/furniture-shop-has-gone-bust-without-delivering-my-eames-style-chair\/","url_meta":{"origin":21294,"position":0},"title":"Furniture shop has gone bust without delivering my Eames-style chair","date":"May 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I ordered it before the new EU copyright laws came into force but the company has gone into administrationI ordered an Eames-style chair in January from an online furniture company called Wallace Sacks, just before the copyright law came into force on 28 January \u2013 as you reported on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94443,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-didnt-my-eames-chairs-come-up-to-the-mark\/","url_meta":{"origin":21294,"position":1},"title":"Why didn\u2019t my Eames chairs come up to the mark?","date":"July 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r They cost \u00a3339 each from John Lewis but there were \u2018stains\u2019 on the white seats within monthsI bought four Eames dining chairs, made by Vitra, from John Lewis in August 2016. 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