Oblique tableware that makes you happy: designer Maarten Baas in interview

Oblique tableware that makes you happy: designer Maarten Baas in interview

Perfect shapes, symmetries and straight lines do not interest him. Dutch designer Maarten Baas loves playing with imperfection. His tableware collections are also one thing above all: imperfect and carefree, like the drawings of a child.

Maarten Baas with his tableware collection Pretty Happy

Always look on the bright side of life! Maarten Baas in front of his porcelain tableware "Pretty Happy", which he designed for Cor Unum in 2016. Marije Kuiper

Deliberately designed without a compass: Maarten Baas drew uneven circles for his "Inner Circle" dinnerware set. The sketches dictated the shape of the plates.

He almost didn't get his degree at the art academy in Eindhoven. Flaming design classics like Charles Eames' famous "LCW" recliner and then preserving it with resin? That's not design, his professors said. Maarten Baas burned them anyway, followed his inner voice, ventured into unknown territory. A short time later, his "Smoke" series was exhibited in the world's most important design galleries, and the Dutchman suddenly became well-known. He describes the path to new designs as "mini-revolutions" - in other words, doing what he really wants, what is relevant, despite his own reservations or those of others. To this day, Baas is all about challenging concepts of perfection, beauty and good design. He would prefer his work to grow like plants in a garden, carefree and organic, with soul and traces of what he has experienced. His deliberately rough and unfinished cutlery for Valerie Objects made a splash in 2016, and he now also designs tableware. These collections are also crooked and lopsided, seemingly created by chance, like children's drawings. But of course there is an artistic concept behind them, as always with Baas.

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