Milan 08: designer Maarten Baas will exhibit new work and projects created over the last 5 years at Zona Tortona in Milan next week.
New pieces include a desk in Baas’ Sculpt series (above) and a new range of carved wooden pieces created for Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai (top image and below).
Baas has also created new pieces for Established & Sons (no images available yet). Here’s some text from Studio Baas & Den Herder:
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Maarten Baas, April 2008 : exhibition, showing an overview of the works by Maarten Baas and Studio Baas & Den Herder from the past 5 years.
The exhibition will show works, that have been made in cooperation with other parties, such as Moss, Contrasts, Rossana Orlandi and Established & Sons. Furthermore, the exhibition will also give an inside view on the studio that Maarten Baas shares with producer Bas den Herder. Prototypes, experiments, failures and work that is still in development will be shown in Autoriparazione Voghera.
Via Voghera 8, Zona Tortona, 20144, Milano
16 – 20 April
Opening times: 10:00 – 20:00
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Posted by Rose Etherington
I too would prefer my plastic injection molded patio furniture in polished hard wood.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pmJust burnt it!!!
April 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm@lone: hehehe
April 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pmPlastic chair in wood / Good social references and material crossover to create a strong irony.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pmI love the chair. It makes you realise how greatly material can affect form.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:38 amseems like a real waste to me. and the chaos chair just seems pointless.
is it art, cause it sure ain’t furniture.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:07 amI have a strong dislike towards Maarten Baas and i mostly agree with ‘bald skull’ but I have to admit i really love the transformation of the archetypal plastic chair, it ain’t big, it ain’t clever, but it still makes me smile.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pma nice statement. clever. One-liner? maybe, maybe not so much.
Interesting art!
Great!
April 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pmto qutoe ron
- ‘is irony killing design?’
answer - not killing, just hurting.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:35 pmthese are some serious ugly
April 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pmHilarious! I love them.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pmNext season SprallMart will carry the faux wood grain plastic version of the “ironic” wood version of the ubiquitous tacky plastic chair. What does it become then, tragic, or does it make the artist iconic?
April 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pmthe ‘ designers of future’.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:18 amis it just me or is he repeating himself?
April 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pmbrilliant.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pmthe garden chair is great (IMHO),
agree the chaos chair is a bit.. mmm???
though, to be fair, it does say that the exhibition includes ‘experiments and failures’