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Where There's Smoke...
Steinway baby grand
piano
designer:
Maarten Baas
design year:
2007
manufacturer:
Maarten Baas, Netherlands
materials:
piano in walnut wood, burnt and finished with an epoxy resin followed by a transparent polyurethane lacquer with UV-filter, original 1938 ivory keys, stool upholstered in black wool felt created by Claudy Jongstra Studio, the Netherlands
notes:
rare, vintage baby grand piano manufactured by Steinway & Sons, Hamburg, Germany, dated March 21st, 1938 burnt by Maarten Baas, 2007
The piano's serial number (290337) enabled Steinway & Sons, USA, to identify the piano for us as being a rare 'Model S Chippendale', completed on March 21st, 1938, in their Hamburg, Germany workshop.
This piece was specially commissioned by Moss for the opening exhibition of its new gallery in Los Angeles. (June 2007)
