Design Miami: Maarten Baas is Melting, Melllllting!

When it comes to furniture, where there’s smoke, there’s not necessarily fire, but there is Dutch designer Maarten Baas, who for his famed “Smoke” series of charred furniture took a blow torch (and lots of translucent epoxy resin sealant) to the iconic creations of everyone from Gaudi to the Campana brothers. The fiery fun continues in Baas’ newest series, “Transformation,” an appealingly oozy range of handcrafted wood furniture on view through Saturday at the Design Miami booth of Pearl Lam‘s Contrasts