Here’s another designer we think you should take a peak at. It’s a favourite of Kristen one of our Sydney girls and well worth a look in. His name is Marteen Baas and he’s a young designer from the Netherlands. He graduated in 2002 from the Design Academy Eindhoven with two designs. His two design works comprised of a series of charred furniture, popularly known as the Smoke series and an ingenious sundial, displaying the hours in shadow.

In the Smoke series pieces of furniture are literally burned,  after which they are preserved in a clear epoxy coating. Except for three baroque products, which are reproduced by the Dutch label Moooi, all Smoke products come from the Baas & den Herder studio in The Netherlands. Since 2004 gallery Moss and Maarten Baas have collaborated
on the “Where There’s Smoke…” series: a Smoke collection of well known design classics of a.o Rietveld, Eames and Gaudi. Besides this series, Baas has done commissions for collectors and museums around the world.

Below is another little ditty he’s done which we love, it’s the “Real Time Analogue Digital Clock”. Check it out. For those of you who haven’t checked Marteen out before, this would be a good use of 5 minutes right here

Real Time :: Analogue Digital Clock

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