Maarten van Severen studied architecture at the Art Academy in Ghent and produced his first furniture in 1986. In 1990 he began a collaboration with the architect Rem Koolhaus and started to concentrate on interiors. The .03 chair is designed to be unobtrusive yet comfortable and is made of resilient polyurethane integral foam. The chair is designed to respond to the body by flexing. Maarten’s collaboration with the family owned Swiss manufacturer Vitra commenced in 1996. Vitra
