Smoked Eames

Disrespectful or a piece of art?

 

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Maarten Bass a dutch artist would like you to think the latter.

His exhibit "Where There's Smoke" for Moss
where they state "Bass re-sculpts these design icons with flame, careful to preserve their structural integrity and thereby their original functionality. Their authorship and identity altered, they become revisionist, highly personal, audacious expressions of the artist."

 

Baas stamps each one with his own name after he is finished.

 

"Why do we want to have the same expression of beauty?" he is quoted as saying in a Washington Post article

 

Baas launched himself as a blowtorch designer with a graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven and you can see more of his design work HERE.

 

I personally see the work as hauntingly beautiful and it seems to have something to say about luxury and idols in our current society.  What are your thoughts? 

 
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