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	title of this thread your message Hang on to the e-mails from the seller. And don't be angry. (or just a little bit for not asking here before you bid:) Who knows. The seller may have been fooled as well and is passing it on and hopping the buyer doesn't notice the difference. Or just an antique collector confused by the whole MCM gold rush. Alvar Aalto's design is difficult to describe to a non-woodworker. "The leg, which he dubed the "bent-knee",...He solved the problem not by bending a solid piece of wood at a ninety-degree angle but by forming a sandwich of thin laminates that could be easily bent. The stool leg was a solid, straight piece of birch: just below where the bend was to be it was backsawn to make it pliable. A piece made of identical wide laminates was then glued onto the solid leg. This end of the leg was then bent and attached to the underside of the stool top." (while all plywood is made from laminated wood, that is, pieces that have been glued together. not all laminated wood is plywood. Plywood is made from veneers, each of which is laminated with the grain facing perpendicular to the grain of the adjacent sheet.) Judging by some sites exclaiming "Target has Alto Aavar stools for 14.99! eurika, and 1/10th the price!" (spelling intentional), the difference is quite clear. It isn't even a reproduction. It's a knock-off. associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?