MAARTEN VAN SEVEREN

Maarten Van Severen (June 5, 1956 - Feb. 21, 2005) was a Belgian furniture designer and interior architect who made his mark on the international design world. His legacy includes a series of iconic furniture pieces that have become synonymous with timeless elegance and functionality... It is very tempting to call Maarten Van Severen's work minimalist. The apparent rigidity of his unadorned and often seemingly geometric objects certainly encourages such a view... Van Severen himself firmly rejects the label of minimalist. He prefers to think of himself as a maximalist - someone who relentlessly devotes all his energy and resources to achieving the desired result.

Primary location: Amsterdam Netherlands