“Copy Furniture” Obtained Through Copying in the Globalization Process

Globalization, which is the process of interaction, sharing and dissemination of the relationships of societies worldwide, has emerged as an important phenomenon for many disciplines in recent years. Among these disciplines, there is also the discipline of design and the profession of architecture, which are affected by factors such as developments in technology, the spread of knowledge and awareness, and the disappearance of borders. In recent years, design has taken on a universal identity in order to be accessible and understood everywhere and everyone. While this is a positive process in terms of the spread and recognition of designs, it has also been observed that similar and repetitive products designed with the same methods have increased. Thus, it can be said that this process has a negative effect on creativity in one sense. In this study, the reflections of globalization on furniture design, which accelerated the transition to mass production after the industrial revolution in the 80s, were discussed, and the furniture of famous designers, which were imitated by copying in terms of form, detail, ratio/proportion and material according to the definitions of G. Lippold (1923), were discussed in terms of visual and technical qualities. Thus, it has been revealed that the globalization process, which means the spread of knowledge, universality, integration of nations and the removal of borders, has triggered "imitation in furniture" with famous designs being offered to the market as copies.