The architect Marcel Breuer probably never thought one of his seating designs would prompt a legal battle. But when furniture manufacturer Knoll spotted that a German company, Tecta, had, since 1982, been making a tubular steel stool – more precisely the B9 that Breuer designed in 1925 for the Bauhaus architecture school canteen – it took its case to a court, which eventually ruled that Tecta should hand over all the profits it had made from its version.
或許建築設計師馬歇·布勞耶(Marcel Breuer)不會想到,他的座椅設計會引發一場法律爭端。但是,當家具製造商Knoll發現,德國公司Tecta自1982年以來,就一直在製造一款鋼管高腳凳,幾乎完全抄襲布勞耶1925年爲包豪斯建築學院(Bauhaus architecture school)餐廳設計的B9創意,於是Knoll將Tecta告上法院。法院最終裁定,Tecta應將其從該款產品獲得的全部利潤交出來。