Comments on: Maarten Baas at Contrasts Gallery

By: tristan

tristan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:41:43 +0000

this is the best furniture i have ever seen in my life!! maarten should be voted as the number one living designer. i want to buy everything he makes and mmost people feel the same..

By: Moi Is Better Than You

Moi Is Better Than You — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:29:44 +0000

Stop bitching, get off your large behind, put those cookies away, and do something useful. This stuff is marvellous. Ta-ta :]

By: noes'

noes' — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:00:49 +0000

If you say this is a sculpture I can live with it. Well … furniture it’s not.

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:40:03 +0000

**edited for typos**
hmmm . perhaps if we view Baas’ work in terms of an artistic *continuum* - that is, he is sculpting. designing, making art, etc all at once, his work deserves more consideration, perhaps even praise. As a dealer, I find the efforts refreshing - he manages to straddle a nice line, with potential clients from the design, “craft”/furniture and “fine-art”/sculpture circles of the Venn Diagram of Art. Those of you who dismiss this work so easily - I’d like to see your works. They may be excellent in when viewed through one lens… but can they stand up to viewing through those same 3 lenses?

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:38:53 +0000

hmmm . perhaps if we view Baas’ work in terms of an artistic *continuum* - that is, he i ssculting. designing, making art, etc all at once, his work deserves more consideration, perhaps even praise. As a dealer, I find the efforts refreshing - he manages to straddle a nice line, with potential clients from the design, “craft”/furniture and “fine-art”/sculpture circles of the Venn Diagram of Art. Those of you who dismiss this work so easily - I’d like to see your works. They may be excellent in when viewed through one lens… but can they stand up to viewing through those same 3 lenses?

By: ming

ming — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:55:32 +0000

ooh, masso, you’re an easy complainer, but even easier to be offended! And aren’t you part of the “the police which keeps on trying to define what’s supposed to be design and art bandwagon ?”

By: mass0

mass0 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:14:20 +0000

yes Sander, I’m sure his stuff is ‘very creative’ if you like that sort of thing.
I’m clearly in the dark about the design world, or ‘designer trying to do art
bandwagon….’

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:49:53 +0000

When I see some of the responses here, I think there are a lot of freaks checking dezeen every day, but not so many who took the effort to see actually a show. Like Baas’s show in Milan this year, which prooves he’s full of ideas and makes fun of anyone who takes this design world a bit too seriously….

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:53:53 +0000

And, Masso, maybe you should do some research before judging so easily from the sideline. Apart from the fact I don’t agree with your opinion (I like almost all works of Baas), the things you say are just not true. He did more than you think. You want somebody to explain you what’s so clever about his designs. I could do that, because I think they are clever, but in the end you like it or not. And you obviously don’t like it. And I do. Fair enough…

By: sander

sander — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:12:18 +0000

So Masso, I think then you just don’t get where new design is about. It’s not about creating something we already know, with a sylish twist. Personal, new and provocative, something you don’t get at first sight, surprise.
I think you never thought of melting, burning or claying furniture, but about average, non interesting stuff.