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New work by Maarten Baas in Milan

April 10th, 2008

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Milan 08: designer Maarten Baas will exhibit new work and projects created over the last 5 years at Zona Tortona in Milan next week.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Via Voghera 8, Zona Tortona, 20144, Milano

16 – 20 April

Opening times: 10:00 – 20:00

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Posted by Rose Etherington

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15 Responses to “New work by Maarten Baas in Milan”

  1. Lone Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    I too would prefer my plastic injection molded patio furniture in polished hard wood.

  2. Bruno Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Just burnt it!!!

  3. wahton Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    @lone: hehehe

  4. desky Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Plastic chair in wood / Good social references and material crossover to create a strong irony.

  5. Emerson Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 12:38 am

    I love the chair. It makes you realise how greatly material can affect form.

  6. bald skull Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:07 am

    seems like a real waste to me. and the chaos chair just seems pointless.

    is it art, cause it sure ain’t furniture.

  7. Cat Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    I 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.

  8. Dariusz Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    a nice statement. clever. One-liner? maybe, maybe not so much.

    Interesting art! :) Great!

  9. Can't, will get into trouble Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    to qutoe ron

    – ‘is irony killing design?’

    answer – not killing, just hurting.

  10. leandro locsin Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    these are some serious ugly

  11. Tiffany Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Hilarious! I love them.

  12. Rikard Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Next 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?

  13. Honggo Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    the ‘ designers of future’.

  14. Jebus Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    is it just me or is he repeating himself?

  15. jethro Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    brilliant.
    the 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’

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