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(Design at Home with Mark Hill - Pure Evil Gallery, London, 7th April 2019) A unique Fred Baier 'art furniture' desk designed and handmade by Fred Baier c2000, of geometric form, the top formed from three square panels, all made from honeycomb aluminium board veneered with English and American walnut, the central panel raised and with split mirrored figured walnut veneer, on a geometric base comprised of squares formed from solid and veneered English and American walnut panels, with suspended drawers to either side of the pedestal, 73cm highest, 119cm deep, 237cm wide. Fred Baier (b.1949) is an avant garde furniture designer and maker who is notable for his progressive approach to design and use of materials. He began working in the 1970s after graduating from the Royal College of Art, London, and calls himself a 'furniture artist' rather than a craftsman. He considers his work as "pioneering furniture statements, rather than products". In 2011, he was commissioned to make furniture for the House of Lords, and a 'prism' chair is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. His works are also in the collection of the Carnegie Collection of Art, the Crafts Council of Great Britain, Temple Newson House, and other regional museums, Baier always works closely with the person who has commissioned the piece. About this unique and architectural design, Baier said that it is '...a nod towards the De Stijl movement, the paintings of Mondrian, and furniture designed by Gerrit Rietveld."