Maarten Baas designs bar stools with unusually-shaped backrests for Lensvelt
A set of bar stools is the latest addition to Dutch designer Maarten Baas' "family" of upholstered chairs with irregular back shapes for furniture brand Lensvelt. More
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Watch our talk with Maarten Baas at Moooi's Milan exhibition
Dutch designer Maarten Baas told the stories behind his Smoke furniture collection and Something Like This sofa for Moooi in our Design Dreams talk. More
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Large O-shaped rocking chair features in Moooi's 2017 furniture and lighting range
A ring-shaped rocking chair and a sofa based on a simple line drawing are among the new products in Dutch furniture brand Moooi's latest collection. More
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Competition: win a book documenting the work of designer Maarten Baas
Dezeen is giving two readers the chance to win a signed copy of Maarten Baas Hide and Seek, a book filled with projects by the Dutch designer. More
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"I really want to keep on shaking things up" says Maarten Baas
Scorched furniture, theatrical clocks and an indoor circus are among the projects that Dutch designer Maarten Baas presents in his first retrospective, at the Groninger Museum. In this exclusive interview, he explains why taking risks has been crucial to his success. More
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Maarten Baas extrudes his sketches to create Close Parity furniture collection
Naive sketches are transformed into three-dimensional brass furniture in the latest collection from Dutch designer Maarten Baas. More
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The hands of Maarten Baas' Schiphol clock are drawn on in real time
Dutch designer Maarten Baas' giant Real Time Schiphol timepiece replaces traditional clock hands with a 12-hour-long video performance (+ movie). More
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Maarten Baas proposes tree-grown armchair at New! Newer! Newest! exhibition
Milan 2016: plans for an oversized armchair that would be formed inside a growing tree trunk and a massive logo that changes colour with the seasons featured in Dutch designer Maarten Baas's New! Newer! Newest! exhibition (+ slideshow). More
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Maarten Baas and Koichi Futatsumata design "quirky high-end" cutlery collections
Designers Maarten Baas and Koichi Futatsumata have created a range of eating implements as part of a series of cutlery collaborations by Antwerp design label Valerie Objects. More
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Maarten Baas exhibition in New York showcases furniture based on turtle and beetle shells
Dutch designer Maarten Baas will present his latest furniture collection, Carapace, at an exhibition opening this week at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York (+ slideshow). More
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Maarten Baas oversees architectural battle for "ugly location" in the Netherlands
Dutch Design Week 2015: Maarten Baas has become the latest designer to foray into architecture, partnering with two teams of architects to unveil designs for a residential development in Eindhoven's De Bakermat plaza. More
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Maarten Baas and Bertjan Pot team up for funfair-influenced lighting collection
Milan 2015: Dutch designers Maarten Baas and Bertjan Pot have combined their distinct styles to create a range of lamps and light-up mirrors for handmade products manufacturer DHPH. More
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Maarten Baas adds balloon-shaped pendants to lighting range for Lasvit
Milan 2015: Dutch designer Maarten Baas has formed milky and coloured glass into pendant lamps that look like balloons. More
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Maarten Baas's surreal solo show created to "emphasise the circus that Milan is"
Milan 2014: Dutch designer Maarten Baas' created an indoor fairground earlier this month as a critique of Milan's design week, which he likens to a circus where products are "nothing more than a snapshot to share on Facebook" (+ slideshow + interview). More
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Lasvit's new lighting collections "combine craftsmanship with advanced technology"
Milan 2014: designers including Maarten Baas, Arik Levy and Maxim Velčovský introduce their new pieces for Lasvit in this movie filmed at the Czech lighting company's Emotions show in Milan earlier this week. More
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Maarten Baas: "My Smoke furniture was an instant success"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview with Maarten Baas, the Dutch designer reflects on how his career has progressed since the burnt furniture he developed for his 2002 graduation project immediately brought him to the attention of the design world. More
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Dutch designer Maarten Baas shows us his studio that "used to be a farm"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie we filmed during Dutch Design Week, designer Maarten Baas gives us an exclusive tour of his studio on a former farm a few miles north of Eindhoven. More
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Dezeen Book of Ideas: Sweeper Clock by Maarten Baas
The final extract from our Book of Ideas selected by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs this week is a 24-hour performance involving two janitors constantly sweeping lines of rubbish to represent the hand of a clock. More
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Just About Now by Maarten Baas with Laikingland
Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More
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Interview with Maarten Baas
In this last (very short) interview in our series filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Dutch designer Maarten Baas explains why he isn't showing any new work this year.
