maarten baas: 'standard unique' for established & sons

‘standard unique’ chairs by maarten baas image © designboom

established & sons launched ‘standard unique’ chair by maarten baas during the milan design week 09. ‘standard unique’ derives from the concept of creating variations within a mass produced context. using an archetypal dutch kitchen chair, bass has created 5 patterns for the hand sculpted chairs, with each chair being made up of 16 components. all the patterns share common joining points so these component parts replicating cnc technology, can be interchangeable. therefore, from the original patterns you can make hundreds of thousands of variations. the result is a hand produced design using mass production.

‘standard unique’ chairs by maarten baas image © designboom

‘standard unique’ chair

‘standard unique’ chairs