Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas (1978) went to the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1996. While still in school, his first design was already put into production: the Knuckle candlestick.
He then graduated in June 2002 with two concepts: the now generally known Smoke and Clay series. The Smoke series involved Baas burning furniture and then treating it with a coating to turn them into perfectly useable pieces of furniture again. The Smoke series has been purchased for various permanent collections of leading museums from all over the world (Victoria & Albert Museum, Groninger Museum, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) and is still included in the Moooi series. In 2004 he had an exhibition in New York (Where There’s Smoke), showing 25 burnt pieces of furniture, including designs by Rietveld and Gaudí.

The furniture from the Clay series has a metal skeleton and has been made from industrial clay. Maarten Baas designed a number of new Clay furniture models especially for the Mendini restaurant in the Groninger Museum. All pieces are made by hand in the Maarten Baas studio. Thanks to the handmade production, all pieces are unique.
Baas has designed clocks in movie format, a number of which are exhibited in museums, and also available on DVD, in addition to being released as iPhone/iPad-Apps.

Portret photo by Kenton Thatcher

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plain clay floor lampplain clay floor lamp

Maarten Baas

plain clay floor lamp

Maarten Baas

€ 4.700

clay low chairclay low chair

Maarten Baas

clay low chair

Maarten Baas

€ 10.300

clay multileg | highclay multileg | high

Maarten Baas

clay multileg | high

Maarten Baas

€ 37.500

clay floor fanclay floor fan

Maarten Baas

clay floor fan

Maarten Baas

€ 18.400

clay multileg | lowclay multileg | low

Maarten Baas

clay multileg | low

Maarten Baas

€ 13.500

plain clay coffee tableplain clay coffee table

Maarten Baas

plain clay coffee table

Maarten Baas

€ 8.200

clay with drawerclay with drawer

Maarten Baas

clay with drawer

Maarten Baas

€ 5.800

plain clay table with lightplain clay table with light

Maarten Baas

plain clay table with light

Maarten Baas

€ 4.100

plain clay armchairplain clay armchair

Maarten Baas

plain clay armchair

Maarten Baas

€ 3.800

plain clay chairplain clay chair

Maarten Baas

plain clay chair

Maarten Baas

€ 3.400

plain clay table lampplain clay table lamp

Maarten Baas

plain clay table lamp

Maarten Baas

€ 2.400

clay chairclay chair

Maarten Baas

clay chair

Maarten Baas

€ 3.900

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