Here are new photos of The Chankley Bore, a prototype collection for British brand Established & Sons by Dutch designer Maarten Baas.
The collection was presented in Milan last month.
See more images in our earlier story.
May 2nd, 2008
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
new photography doesnt save this…. it still belongs on the wallace and gromit set
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
i agree, still the real wallace and gromit sets are lot nicer.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
More cheeese Gromit?
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Does anybody remember a game called The Neverhood?
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The Wizard of Maarten Baas
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Ahhh! Not again!!!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
is exactly neverhood game!!!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
is exacly the copy of neverhood’s game
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
this is not DESIGN!!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
and the colours are soooo ugly …
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Wonderful stuff. Fun, playful and irreverent (something the commenters here could obviously use more of!)
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am
M. Baas is fantastic.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry…
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
for some reason this reminds me of two things: triffids and lsd.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Maarten Baas, what is the story?! Why Chankley? Why Bored?
This stuff is clearly aimed at kids of the super wealthy. Is Established&children in the offing?!
May 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
established and sons definitely shocked us by its decision, i thought they chose things that are more or less presentatble
May 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I’m glad Established & Sons made this move. It shows their guts to step away from the safe track. Maarten Baas is one of the few designers who really dares to explore new areas in design. It’s great!
May 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Usually I do not comment but this time i feel the need to do it. It looks quite wired in the collection of Established & Sons. I feel that this collection has influences from the work of Ettore Sottsass. Besides that I believe that most of the comments are negative because people are used in a specific design typology and these pieces are something that you do not expect to see. Another think I would like to mention is that product and industrial design students in the UK are not free to experiment because the only thing that their tutors learn them is to create objects according to the possibilities of a machine and use the existing manufacturing processes. Thats not design, thats just another product in the market. Design is being able to make a statement through your work and innovate in every way.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Check out the film idiocracy, this stuff would fit in perfectly — visually and conceptually.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Dear DEAR ALL
Actually there is a huge difference between this and Sottsass. Sottsass chose his colors, materials and forms for social and philosophical reasons. Baas, as far as I can tell simply does things because he thinks they look cool. Therefore his work deserves to be judged on its aesthetic qualities…..and the crowd has spoken…..this stuff is CRAZY UGLY!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I agree with “dear all”. Although I don’t know if Baas has anything to do with Sottsass, I know that when “the crowd was speaking” when Sottsass came up with his pieces, they also weren’t to enthusiastic about it. In the few years Baas is working he has proven that he knows what he’s doing. And, moreover: what does it matter? I just like this work.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
i love baas’s work. but imagine if he hadn’t conjured the dramatic overburnt chairs or the magically naive clay chairs, i would have some amount of difficulty not dismissing this fun set of furniture as some innovative kid’s play set from ikea, and question whether it is deserving of such overwhelming praise and adulation.
however he’s proved his genius with stronger pieces in the past, therefore he can now let loose and unravel as he pleases in the present.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:36 am
FANTASTIC WORKS!!