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Maarten Baas, Where There's Smoke, 2004

Featuring Michael Thonet's No. 18 and 16 chairs

“In nature, everything is in flux, which creates a certain beauty. Yet, it’s a very human tendency to keep things as they are supposed to be and keep them beautiful as they originally were. Smoke plays with both perceptions of beauty.” 

After the pieces are charcoaled, they’re preserved in clear epoxy resin, which makes them firm enough to become functional again.