Maarten van Severen
Belgium

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Maarten van Severen

Belgium

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Biography

The son of an abstract painter, Maarten Van Severen chose to study architecture at Ghent art school; he completed three years before going to work for various agencies in interior design and furniture projects, then in 1986 he started to make furniture.

His work reflects his quest for perfection in form, detail and fabrication.Van Severen was also frequently commissioned as a decorator and furniture designer for private residence projects, teamed with Rem Koolhaas. They worked together on the Villa dall’Ava in 1990, then again in Bordeaux in 1996 (Maison à Floirac).

Articles about Maarten van Severen

NEW WORK

Communications machine

2/12/2021

The new media campus OMA has designed for the Axel Springer Publishing Group sees itself as the concrete manifestation of a hypothesis about the end of classic office structures. The fact that in the digital age we urgently need enough space for communications and the exchange of opinions is something that the current pandemic has no doubt brought home to us once again.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories

4/16/2014

Milan in the days of the Salone and Fuori Salone – is a hodgepodge of impressions, encounters and cameo stories. In terms of form and content, they are as different as, say, people, furniture, brands, and markets.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Studio image: Maarten Van Severen, OMA and Lensvelt

3/31/2014

Lensvelt makes furniture and OMA creates an illusion – presenting early designs by Belgium’s Maarten Van Severen, who died in 2005.

FEATURED

Designing your own working space

8/31/2012

Together with the office furniture experts at Vitra the creative minds at the Razorfish agency in Frankfurt/Main have devised furniture for their new “Agile Office” concept.

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