Maarten Van Severen - Maarten Van Severen - 2000

Designed together with Filiep Tacq, in close collaboration with Maarten Van Severen (05.06.1956 – 21.02.2005).

This book was his first monograph.

Edited in Dutch, English, and French.

The book begins immediately with a collection of images. These photographs depict all kinds of objects and situations that inspired Maarten Van Severen. After 80 unpaginated pages of pictures, there is a change in paper quality, and the title page of the book appears. The pagination starts here, and over the next 128 pages, the work of Maarten Van Severen is presented alongside a text by Geert Bekaert. Following this central section, there is another shift in paper quality, and 48 unpaginated pages follow, displaying full-page photographs of projects that Maarten Van Severen collaborated on with architects and engineers. The blue color of the cover references the work: ‘Blue Bench 1997’.

A few months after publishing, the book was sold out.
Later, a Japanese version was printed.