Overman whats the good word on the other Arne Jacobsen  

i've had.....
overmann over the years and its just poor man's fritz hansen.......
just look at the bases........ they knocked off arne jacobsen's base design from the swan and egg.
its styro-foam covered with vinyl..... cool looking yes, but never really will be collectable or valuable.

yup
Definitely the poor man's AJ & FH
(at the very real risk of sounding snobbish) 😉

call a spade......
...... a spade.
its never snobbish to state the obvious truth.
as for trying to figure out who 'designed' these pieces, most likely a staff committee at overmann who took existing designs and tweaked them.
it was a purely economy,fashion trend response to the market at the time......
is there really anything else to know ??

Oh
don't ask that.........
there'll be a 300 post thread about replacement feet 😉

Since you acknowledge them to be weak copies
of other designers work, why would you be remotely interested in the particular names of the copyists that Overman employed?
Those who copy other people's designs enjoy many advantages-- easy work, less risk of rejection, smooth unfurrowed brows. The disadvantage of being a copyist is anonymity. I'd say it's a fair trade off.

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I love Overman
Wow I am very suprized everyone is so quick to write overman off. I am the opposite and love it to death.
I also might add that overman is far more comfortable then an Arne Jacobsen. Yes i would rather have a jacobsen chair then an overman but I would rather have an overman then a new production jacbosen any day.

to each his own......
......... Viva La Diference !
oh, and in case you wondering who designed the arne jacobsen-esque overmann stuff, it was Victor Shackopoplis.... pictured in the overmann design staff group photo below, 2nd from right

Jessie's Girl
I had no idea Rick Springfield also worked as a furniture designer.

Maybe, but
di Frutta 0wnZ all.

whats the deal?
I know I am new to the forms and that this is my first post but I never would have thought that when someone posts a question about a piece of furniture that people would start bad talking it right away and then fill the page with a bunch of stupid pictures that have nothing to do with what my question was about.
I am sorry chewbaca that you don?t like Overman that is perfectly alright but why fill my thread up with all this junk I didn?t ask for anyone?s opinion of the furniture all I asked is if people had any information about it.
Is this how this form works people list a question and then everyone slams it. None of the other threads look like this?

I think your question was answered.
There is no 'good word' for Overman.
Overman is not the other Jacobsen.
Maybe the responses are a bit cynical, less educational, but ya kinda
asked for it. : )
The original buyers of the Overman chairs are the same type of shopper
today that are buying the fun-n-funky orange pleather space-ship crazy
crap from Target. (at 600 dollars!)
Your examples are just older. And still fun. And cheaper.
I had some great stuff in college from the thrift.
And best to keep it out of the landfill.
Like Plycraft, you may find an rare exception but i've not seen it.

I kind of like the black...
I kind of like the black sofas.