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Wind by Maarten Baas

Design Miami 07: Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a limited edition of his Clay fans with a chrome glaze.

The fans, called Wind, come in three sizes and were presented by Moss at Design Miami over the weekend.

Here's a bit of info from Moss:

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Wind by Maarten Baas, the Netherlands
a series of monumental electric fans, hand-sculpted in chrome-glazed industrial clay, applied over a metal skeleton

Each fan is hand-made by Baas; each size is produced in a signed and numbered limited edition of 8 pieces, exclusive to Moss. Maarten Baas’s work in clay address the issue of form-giving in industrial design, revealing, literally, the designer’s ‘hand’ in this intimate process, today normally concealed through the use of a computer (but there, none-the-less).

Baas’s use of the clay-modeling technique, traditionally employed in rendering the human form from life-study, magnifies the sculptural quality inherent in all functional objects.

Approximate heights:
Large: 75”
Medium: 60”
Small: 50”