Naive sketches are transformed into three-dimensional brass furniture in the latest collection from Dutch designer Maarten Baas.
Called Close Parity, the range is made up of five unusually shaped cabinets, including top-heavy pieces that appear to balance precariously on slender legs, and one with a lamp poking up from its surface.

All fives pieces are made from brass, and some stand on just two legs. But inside are hidden counterweights, giving them far more stability than their unbalanced geometries suggest.

"They're all just sketches that have been extruded," explained Baas. "So they are very very two-dimensional actually, but they're all standing on only two legs."
"With a lot of weight in the middle, we could balance it."
The Close Parity A-Symmetric Cabinet is a curved chest of drawers resting on four small stumpy legs, which are all arranged closely together on one side.
The Close Parity Bedside Cabinet is the smallest piece in the range, consisting of a single curved compartment, while the tallest is the Close Parity Open Cabinet: a shelving unit resembling a sketch of a lightbulb.

"It's a very naive sketch, so naive it couldn't stand gravity actually," Baas told Dezeen. "It only works two-dimensionally on the paper as a doodle, but now we've really made it physical."
"So now there's a difference between naivety of the sketch and the very finely executed pieces," he added.

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