What Time Is It, Mr. Baas?

The designer of the year installation at Design Miami, featuring the work of Maarten Baas.

What are the boundaries of design? When this question was posed to Charles Eames in 1969, he responded famously in the interrogative: “What are the boundaries of problems?” Forty years later, Design Miami asked Maarten Baas, its 2009 Designer of the Year, the same question concerning where design begins and ends. “Every day there are only 24 hours in which that day has to happen,” replied Baas, 31, in an interview published in the Design Miami catalogue.

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