Handmade by Baas & den Herder, the Netherlands for Moss, USA. Number 4 from the edition of 5. One leg inset with metal lettering ‘BAAS’ and underside signed in marker with ‘Clay dining table #4/april 2007/Maarten’.
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$40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $50,000
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Provenance Commissioned directly from the artist
Exhibited ‘Moss Angeles: Moss in Los Angeles’, Moss, Los Angeles, August 2 - September 29, 2007
Literature Adam Lindemann, Collecting Design, Cologne, 2010, front cover and pp. 262-263
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Maarten Baas’s work in clay explores form-giving in industrial design, revealing, literally, the artist’s hand in this intimate process, today commonly concealed through the use of a computer. In making his remarkable ‘Clay’ table, Baas hand sculpted industrial clay on top of a metal armature. After, the tabletop surface was sliced in order to create a flat surface, and then the entire work was painted.