Emily Sandiford<\/a><\/p>\nMaarten Baas believes that the function at the core of his artwork is where the magic begins. Famed for his ingenious furniture, the Dutch artist-designer has a deep understanding of design principles, but it\u2019s his whimsical approach that has made him so influential. \u201cFunction is my starting point,\u201d he explains; \u201cit gives reference and it gives some boundaries and context to what I\u2019m doing.\u201d Baas\u2019 exhibition Play Time at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, LA, never strays far from his concern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words Emily Sandiford Maarten Baas believes that the function at the core of his artwork is where the magic begins. Famed for his ingenious furniture, the Dutch artist-designer has a deep understanding of design principles, but it\u2019s his whimsical approach that has made him so influential. \u201cFunction is my starting point,\u201d he explains; \u201cit gives reference and it gives some boundaries and context to what I\u2019m doing.\u201d Baas\u2019 exhibition Play Time at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, LA, never strays far from his concern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spirit-of-service.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}