Main entry:

Severen, Maarten van, author, artist.

Title & Author:

Maarten Van Severen, werken : work / Maarten Van Severen.

Publication:

Oostkamp [Belgium] : Stichting Kunstboek, [2004]
©2004

Description:

268 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"This book on Maarten Van Severen's oeuvre is the outcome of the retrospective exhibition of his work, organized by the Design Museum in Ghent"-- [page 15].
Published as the outcome of an exhibition held at the Design Museum in Ghent.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267).
Dear reader / Lieven Daenens -- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands -- Vitra: evolution from workshop pieces to industrially deveoped furniture -- Maarten Van Severen: essential design / Rolf Fehlbaum -- The man on the seventh hill / Anna Luyten -- Leather lounge -- Salmon skin skirt -- Deep diver / Simo Heikkila -- Hybrid cutlery -- Cutlery according to Maarten / Alberto Alessi -- Food -- Boxy residence, Deurle, Belgium -- Boxy pavilion, Deurle, Belgium -- House in Floira, Bordeaux. France -- Low chair aluminum and low chair plastic -- Office Wivina de Meester, Zoersel, Belgium -- Brief encounter in the garden / Chris Meplon -- SMAK, Ghent, Belgium -- Blue bench -- Pont du Gard, Nimes, France -- Light -- Casa da musica, Porto, Portugal -- Seattle Public Library, USA -- MVS lounge -- Box table -- Carpet -- Cupboard with colored sliding doors -- Converstions around the kitchen table / Harm Scheltens -- Maarten Van Severen MEUBELEN.
Also issued online.
Text in English and Dutch.
Flemish and English.

Summary:

"As the son of an abstract painter, Maarten Van Severen (1956) has become one of the best-known Belgian designers. In the late eighties he started to create furniture in his own workshop in Gent (BE). His designs are simple, clear and well thought-out. They reflect his quest for perfection in form, detail and execution. This attitude and the following growing co-operation with leading furniture manufacturers such as Vitra (CH), Edra (IT), Bulo (BE), Light (BE), Durlet (BE)...were the basis for many revolutionary design projects. Also the interiors he designed are much discussed: the architect Rem Koolhaas entrusted him with the interiors of his most renowned buildings such as Villa dall' Ava in Paris (FR) and the house in Floirac, near Bordeaux (FR)." "Today Maarten Van Severen Studio is working on a whole range of projects. Recent works are the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) where he created a new library, bookshop, auditorium and restaurant, a kitchen pavilion for a catering business near Gent (BE) and a research and developing project about food and cutlery. This book is the most complete publication about Maarten Van Severen. It contains eight contributions of colleagues, experts, manufacturers and it reveals dozens of new photographs of his designs and realisations."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9058561550 (paperback)
9789058561558 (paperback)

Subject:

Severen, Maarten van.
Severen, Maarten van, 1956- Catalogues.
Furniture design Belgium.
Meubles Design Belgique Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Décoration intérieure Belgique Design Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Meubles Design Belgique.
Design Belgium History 20th century.
Furniture design Belgium History 20th century.
Chair design Belgium History 20th century.
Interior decoration Belgium History 20th century.
Furniture design
Vormgeving.
Meubels.
Belgium

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Design Museum Gent, host institution.
Design Museum Gent

Werken
Work

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237165
Call No.: NK44.S498 M3 2004
Status: Available