MAARTEN BAAS
Unique ‘Smoke’ table, 2008
Charred pre-existing designed table, clear epoxy resin, painted metal. 75.6 x 275.6 x 98.4 cm. (29 3/4 x 108 1/2 x 38 3/4 in.)
Produced by the Baas & de Herder studio, The Netherlands. From an edition of five. One edge of table with inset metal lettering ‘BAAS’.
ESTIMATE £12,000-15,000 ♠
LITERATURE Tom Dixon, et al, eds, &Fork, London, 2007, p. 28, fig. 6 for a similar example
Where there’s ‘Smoke’, there was combusted acetylene. Among the hottest burning gasses, it achieves temperatures of 3000° centigrade—a purifying flame. Dutch designer Maarten Baas first played with fire at Design Academy Eindhoven, from which he graduated in 2003. Since...
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