What does the term “after” mean in this context?

What does even “after” mean in Indian language? Does it mean that a chair is a replica or an original?

A mid century Wassily / B3 chair 1925-1927, after Marcel Breuer (London, 1902-1981).

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This means that “Wassily” chair is one in the design of one originally made by someone named “Marcel Breuer” of New York. Depending on your perspective, the furniture he crafted is named for his style of making chairs. Think of it as saying that it was named for his style. Or even that it was named because of him, for it was made in his style, For the fact that he did something interesting with it, he started with great ideas and ended with some great technical problems.


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is an example of OED sense 10 for the preposition after (paywalled). What are subsenses of

  • a verb? In accordance with, according to (an example, manner, pattern, custom, idea, etc.).
  • b. In the manner, in the same way as; in emulation of; like. Also with verbs of designating or naming: in imitation or memory by. See definition.
  • a. a. b. c. d. h. c. d. e. c. e. c. In imitation of, in the style of (an artist or work). Also in resemblance to, representing (a person or thing).

Which one is operative subsense C, being in the style of certain artist’s work, the best application here is subsense B. So it’s difficult to denote that subsense can emigrate to another person from this, but is interesting for some reason?

The above are a few tiny subset of citations for these three senses,

  • arranged chronologically: 1850 A. Jameson Sacred &
    Legendary Art 1 A portfolio of prints after the old masters.
  • U. Sinclair Metropolis 1908 xvi (numbe) Xvi 281
    Here was a woman who costumed herself after figures in famous paintings.
  • 1912 Times 3 June 6/1
    The velvet brocade material..was woven after an English design..simply saws.
  • 1918 New Bartley bargain true xv. incl. He
    took her gravely to task for..fancying the world to be regulated after her own ideas.
  • 1900 : A. F. Major tur. ls. com. 1924 : A. F. Major tr. lgr. J. Brndsted Early Eng. Ornament iii. 293
    He christens them . Rune stone .
  • 2004 R. Dew M.P. Pape No Backup i.e. Ivan Pape i.v. R. Pape No Backup i.v. 2001 R. Dew M.P. P. Pape. What
    did the moccasin have have a curled toe and several wovens were used to carry the toe for burial: 6 woven moccasins called opanci, which had a curled toe after the Turkish custom.

In it’s eponymous article on the Wassily chair, Wikipedia says that:

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany.

Wassily Kandinsky was in the chair of The Bauhaus faculty. To me this is a very high point. Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky’s personal quarters. Since Kandinsky is on the chair, the original “Wassily” chair became known as 1920s. Some of the pictures used in this one are phonographs and phonographs. At the time, it was in production, but became an embroiderer as other famous Italian furniture manufacturers had received it in the 1990s.

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