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Maarten Baas Tables

Dutch, b. 1978

Furniture designer Maarten Baas doesn't subscribe to conformist notions of beauty and symmetry. He finds appeal in the character of aged patinas and wear from usage. As such, Baas doesn't seek to create furniture or decorative objects that are perfectly proportioned — for proof, look no further than to the unconventional cabinets of his Close Parity collection or the chairs with oddly shaped backrests he designed for Lensvelt.

Baas breaks unspoken rules, and his influential work is as much art as it is functional design — he’s garnered support from likeminded creatives in his field such as Phillippe Starck and Marcel Wanders, and explores how he might put unusual materials to work such as clay or charred wood in the construction of his chairs and table lamps

Baas was born in Germany and grew up in the Netherlands. After graduating high school, he began his studies at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Before he had even graduated, Baas made an impression on instructors and students alike with his graduation project. 

Using pieces of secondhand furniture he had procured online — some of which was manufactured by IKEA — Baas scorched the wood all the way through with a blowtorch. He soon found a way to preserve the wood once it was burned through, and this led to his inaugural Smoke series. The chairs and a lighting fixture from this line were put into production by Moooi, a furniture brand Wanders cofounded with Revised’s Casper Vissers in 2001. Hospitality guru Ian Schrager got in touch, and a pool table from the collection was custom-made by Baas for the Gramercy Park Hotel.

Since Smoke, Baas has produced numerous pieces, with his best-known efforts involving the repurposing of existing furniture and modifying it to look the way he wants. Ever the innovator, Baas introduced a series of clock designs as part of an art installation that began to take shape in 2009 at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan.

The designer’s clocks see an incorporation of video and other technology. Each piece, such as the ten-foot tall model installed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in 2016, presents the illusion of human figures toiling to keep time behind its face by way of a 12-hour recorded performance. 

Baas’s works are held in the collections of many notable museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 

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Creator: Maarten Baas
Maarten Baas ”Sculpt" Office Desk, 2009
By Maarten Baas
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
Title: sculpt office desk Series: sculpt Edition: 3/8 (+2AP) Material: steel with a dark walnut veneer finish Size: 160 x 85 x 74 (w x d x h).
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Early 2000s Dutch Maarten Baas Tables

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Contemporary Clay Table with Drawer by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas
Located in Warsaw, PL
These vibrant tables are from Maarten Baas’s iconic ‘Clay’ collection launched in 2006. The idiosyncratic childishness of this collection is created through Baas’s individual hand mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Metal

Contemporary Plain Clay Table with Light by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas
Located in Warsaw, PL
This table with light comes from Maarten Baas’s Plain Clay collection. This collection was originally developed for the Mendini restaurant in the Gron...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Metal

Moooi Turbo High Table in Wooden Frame by Maarten Baas
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Spontaneous and refreshing, the car’s abstract design conveys the uncontaminated simplicity of childhood’s thoughts and dreams. A candid sketch of a car roars to life and parks itsel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Wood

Contemporary Clay Side Table by Maarten Baas
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These vibrant tables are from Maarten Baas’s iconic ‘Clay’ collection launched in 2006. The idiosyncratic childishness of this collection is created through Baas’s individual hand mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Metal

Contemporary Clay Table with Drawer by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas
Located in Warsaw, PL
These vibrant tables are from Maarten Baas’s iconic ‘Clay’ collection launched in 2006. The idiosyncratic childishness of this collection is created through Baas’s individual hand mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Metal

Moooi Turbo Low Table in Wooden Frame by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas, Moooi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Spontaneous and refreshing, the car’s abstract design conveys the uncontaminated simplicity of childhood’s thoughts and dreams. A candid sketch of a car roars to life and parks itsel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Wood

Contemporary Clay Coffee Table Multileg by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas
Located in Warsaw, PL
These vibrant tables are from Maarten Baas’s iconic ‘Clay’ collection launched in 2006. The idiosyncratic childishness of this collection is created through Baas’s individual hand mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Maarten Baas Tables

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Metal

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