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Fred Baier
Penny Jones profiles Fred Baier exploring the development of his career since the 1970s and commissions for an impressive range of private and public clients.
“My lifestyle is that of an explorer more than a designer”, asserts Fred Baier who is a craftsman with words as well as with materials. He uses them in the same exploratory and creative way, teasing out ideas, reflecting, modifying and then crystallising them, before moving on to the next challenge. Baier has spent forty years working as a furniture designer and maker and he gives voice to his meditations on this career on his website through the adventures and preoccupations of his alter ego, Captain Veneer. The trajectory of his career is set against the world of craft from the mid-1970s to the present day, and adventures with materials, computer-aided design, science and art are situated in a shifting landscape of private galleries, luxury commissions, Crafts Council patronage and more recently collaborative public art commissions. Now able to reflect on the journey, he says “I try to be a man of my time – making objects of my time, using and reflecting upon the technology, imagery and other issues of now”. He has exhibited worldwide, has furniture in collections in Europe and the USA, and has published some of his writing and...
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