{"id":971,"date":"2009-08-27T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/ries_niemi_who_made_it_first\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T07:19:04","slug":"ries_niemi_who_made_it_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/ries_niemi_who_made_it_first.html","title":{"rendered":"Ries Niemi: Who made it first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/amy-pruzan-sit-on-it-1.html\">this post<\/a>, about a traffic-sign-subverted chair by Amy Pruzan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riesniemi.com\/\">Ries Niemi <\/a>wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry, I just can&#8217;t let this one slide- this chair is an almost direct<br \/>\ncopy, right down to bends, shapes, and construction techniques, of the<br \/>\nchairs that my friend (and I say that because I am honored he calls me<br \/>\na friend) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borisbally.com\/\">Boris Bally<\/a> has been making for close to 15 years now.<\/p>\n<p>Boris has been making all kinds of objects from street signs for longer than Amy Pruzan has been out of 9th grade. Ms. Pruzan may be a great artist, and other works of hers superb- I don&#8217;t know. But I do know this one is a knockoff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Ries, I don&#8217;t think you can know that. It&#8217;s possible Pruzan thought of the idea on her own and proceeded without knowing about Bally&#8217;s production. Yes, Bally was first and remains best, but I think there&#8217;s room for Pruzan. I still like the skinny legs of her chair. They undercut the massive utterance of her seat.<\/p>\n<p>Bally:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"borisbally1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/borisbally1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span>Bally:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"borisbally2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/borisbally2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"440\" \/><\/span>Pruzan: <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"amypruzan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/amypruzan.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"244\" height=\"321\" \/><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to this post, about a traffic-sign-subverted chair by Amy Pruzan, Ries Niemi wrote: Sorry, I just can&#8217;t let this one slide- this chair is an almost direct copy, right down to bends, shapes, and construction techniques, of the chairs that my friend (and I say that because I am honored he calls me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}