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Critique: Burning Art

Everyone who has ever sat through the grueling early morning hours of Architectural History 1 through 93784592, needs to visit Maarten Baas' website. The pieces called "Smoke" are absolutely the best art/design ever. For every multi-syllabled word that came out of Professor Gabrielle Esperdy's mouth about Charles Mackintosh's Hill House 1 Chair, I felt ever more angry at it. Hungover, in pajamas, and still not accustomed to waking up that early, anything but my bed was irrelevant to me. High design was about as interesting as high school. So, slowly, my mind began conjuring up immature acts to be done to these poor pieces of excellent furniture design, that could only be done through cartoons. I know every architecture student has done the same. From merely smashing them to bits with a baseball bat, to driving over them again and again with a steamroller. OH the chaotic wonderment running through our minds.

And now Maarten Baas (artist) has brought our disfunctional college dreams to life. Taking varied famous pieces of furniture and igniting them for pure profit. Whats then left is a charred and fragile piece of what used to be perfect design. Absolute Genious.

Does this raise the value? who knows. Is the chair structurally stable? who cares. Is he going to burn Paris Hilton and IPOD's next? we can only hope.

posted by Anonymous @ 4:34 PM