{"id":27005,"date":"2014-03-26T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=27005"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:44:54","slug":"tractor-vs-metro-barstool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/furnishings\/tractor-vs-metro-barstool\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor vs. Metro Barstool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, these two stools are very similar, aren&#8217;t they? Is one flattering the other by imitating certain aspects of design or is it just a case of blatant copying? One was designed in 2000\/2001 and the other showed up this recently this year. One costs four times what the other does, for good reason if the descriptions are anything to go by. I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide if it&#8217;s an &#8216;inspired by&#8217; situation or a flat out copy-cat.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tractor\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Tractor-Stool-Bassam-Fellows.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwr.com\/product\/tractor-barstool.do\" target=\"_blank\" >Tractor Barstool<\/a>, $1,250.00<br \/>\nSsustainably and locally harvested solid wood (ebonized walnut, American black walnut or ash); black leather-wrapped footrest.<br \/>\nDesigned by Craig Bassam of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassamfellows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >BassamFellows<\/a> (2000\/2001).<br \/>\nMade in U.S.A.<br \/>\n17&#8243;w x 30&#8243;h x 13.5&#8243;d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Metro\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Metro-Stool-Umbra.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbra.com\/ustore\/product\/taburet-barstool.store#\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Metro Barstool<\/a>, 300.00<br \/>\nColor: Walnut<br \/>\n27.75&#8243;h x 16&#8243;w <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, these two stools are very similar, aren&#8217;t they? Is one flattering the other by imitating certain aspects of design or is it just a case of blatant copying? One was designed in 2000\/2001 and the other showed up this recently this year. One costs four times what the other does, for good reason if [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[185,115,131],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Tractor-Stool-Bassam-Fellows.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}