Congratulations Maarten Baas!

Maarten Baas Designer of the year at Miami Basel

Design Miami/, the pre-eminent international fair for limited edition design, nominated Dutch designer Maarten Baas as this year’s winner of the Designer of the Year Award. New work, commissioned for the award, along with a retrospective of Baas’s work, were presented at the December edition of Design Miami.

Each December, the prestigious Award is presented to a designer who has made a significant contribution to the progression of design. The Designer of the Year must demonstrate a long history of consistent work, as well as outstanding work created within the last twelve months. Now in its fifth year, the Award has gone to an impressive list of esteemed designers, including Zaha Hadid, Marc Newson, Tokujin Yoshioka and the Campana Brothers.