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Where There’s Smoke is a continuing narrative told through one-of-a-kind pieces created by Dutch designer Maarten Baas for Moss, in which iconic examples of innovative 20th century aesthetic movements (which have been the strongest personal influences for this young graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands) are burned, then stabilized with an epoxy resin and a special lacquer. Wielding a torch as one might a chisel, Baas re-sculpts these design icons with flame, careful to preserve, as much as possible, their structural integrity (and thereby their original functionality). Their authorship and identity altered, they become revisionist, highly personal, audacious expressions of Baas, all now related through his personal experience and through the eloquence of their metamorphosis. |
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