Designer Maarten Baas spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation today as part our VDF x Lensvelt collaboration.
The Dutch designer was joined by the founder of the Dutch furniture brand Lensvelt, Hans Lensvelt, and spoke to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his work for the brand.
The conversation between Baas, Lensvelt and Fairs was a part of a series of Screentime talks exploring the Lensvelt brand and its relationship to some of its design collaborators.
Designer Maarten Baas and the founder of furniture brand Lensvelt, Hans Lensvelt
Baas first collaborated with Lensvelt in 2017 when they launched a collection of chairs at Salone del Mobile featuring irregularly shaped backrests, which will be featured in the VDF products fair. Based in Amsterdam, Baas became known for his graduation project Smoke, a collection of furniture that had been scorched with a blowtorch.
Baas has since gone onto design a number of products, installations and video-based projects such as the permanent timepiece installed at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, Real Time Schiphol, which features a video of Baas painting and repainting the hands of the clocks for 12 hours straight.
The designer has also previously designed a collection of brass furniture that resemble simple sketches of furniture.
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