{"id":408507,"date":"2023-06-09T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=408507"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:59:24","slug":"maarten-baas-hill-house-i-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/maarten-baas-hill-house-i-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Why Designer Maarten Baas Set This Charles Rennie Mackintosh Chair on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/chairs\/hill-house-i-chair-maarten-baas\/id-f_34131072\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-950x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-409319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-950x633.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/story_MaartenBaas.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">By torching a reissued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/charles-rennie-mackintosh\/furniture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/a> design (left), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/maarten-baas\/furniture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maarten Baas<\/a> created his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/chairs\/hill-house-i-chair-maarten-baas\/id-f_34131072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hill House I chair<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 2000s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/maarten-baas\/furniture\/\">Maarten Baas<\/a>, a young Dutch artist-provocateur working on his graduation project at the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven, took a reproduction of a tall ladder-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/mackintosh-hill-house-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hill House chair<\/a> originally created in 1888 by pioneering Scottish modernist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/charles-rennie-mackintosh\/furniture\/\">Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/a> and set it aflame. Then, he preserved the chair\u2019s blackened skeleton with clear epoxy resin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his audacious U.S. debut exhibition, \u201cWhere There\u2019s Smoke,\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/murray-moss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Murray Moss gallery<\/a> in Manhattan&#8217;s SoHo neighborhood in 2004, Baas showed the Hill House chair alongside more than 20 other burned reproductions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/modern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">modern<\/a> design classics by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/charles-and-ray-eames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles and Ray Eames<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/antoni-gaudi\/\">Antoni Gaud\u00ed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/gerrit-rietveld\/\">Gerrit Rietveld<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/ettore-sottsass\/\">Ettore Sottsass<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dennis Freedman, a creative director at the time for <em>W<\/em> magazine and later for Barneys New York, was then a few years into an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/radical-italian-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-consuming design-collecting habit<\/a> and stopped by the gallery the day before the show opened. \u201cI was immediately drawn to the Hill House I chair,\u201d Freedman recalls. \u201cI think it\u2019s the most haunting piece in the series, with a delicacy and fragility further intensified by its charred state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/chairs\/hill-house-i-chair-maarten-baas\/id-f_34131072\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-950x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-409401\" width=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-950x713.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-467x350.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas-1244x933.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/R-and-Company-Hill-House-I-Chair-by-Maarten-Baas.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A detail of the Hill House I chair showing the Dutch designer\u2019s signature, visible on many of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/maarten-baas\/furniture\/\">his unique pieces<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Baas\u2019s scorched Hill House I chair, with its (unburned) apple-green raw-silk and wool upholstered seat, is among more than 50 examples from Freedman\u2019s acclaimed collection currently on view at the Tribeca gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/r-and-company\/\">R &amp; Company<\/a> through August 11. Alongside it are important and rare works by such design giants as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/gae-aulenti\/furniture\/\">Gae Aulenti<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/campana-brothers\/furniture\/\">Campana Brothers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/pierre-paulin\/furniture\/\">Pierre Paulin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/shiro-kuramata\/\">Shiro Kuramata<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/joris-laarman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joris Laarman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea of the exhibition, in a way, is to teach people how to collect,\u201d says gallery cofounder Evan Snyderman. \u201cIt feels like you\u2019re walking through someone\u2019s mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And through the history of design that Baas was so engaged with. Original chairs in the show by Rietveld and Gaud\u00ed are the same iconic designs that Baas transformed in his \u201cSmoke\u201d series, for example, and the material subversion and blackened surface of Hill House I echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/alessandro-mendini\/furniture\/\">Alessandro Mendini<\/a>\u2019s Celidonia armchair, which looks like patinated bronze but is actually painted wood and fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedman sees a direct link between Baas\u2019s fiery experimentation and a 1974 performance piece for which Mendini set ablaze two identical chairs of his own design in front of the offices of <em>Casabella<\/em>, the influential Milanese design magazine. \u201cIt succeeded in blurring the line between art and design,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baas did the same with his \u201cSmoke\u201d series, says Snyderman. \u201cIt was very radical. Baas chose famous design icons of the 20th century and burned them all. He was making a statement. He was burning modernism down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In doing so, he created his own legacy. The Hill House I chair was \u201can act of transformation, of alchemy,\u201d says Freedman, explaining that Baas took \u201ca worthless reproduction of a seminal object and turned it into a brilliant new work.\u201d One that will endure, Snyderman believes. \u201cIt is a very significant work. 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