Marcel Wanders
Olivari Designers
Boxtel (NL), 1963
Dubbed by the New York Times as the “Lady Gaga of Design,” Amsterdam based Marcel Wanders (Boxtel, Netherlands, 1963) is a prolific producer, interior designer, and art director, with over 1700 projects on his name for private clients and premium brands such as Alessi, Bisazza, KLM, Flos, Swarovski, Puma, among scores of other
— Marcel Wanders, Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, 2001
His work excites, provokes, and polarizes, but never fails to surprise for its ingenuity, daring and singular quest to uplift the human spirit, and entertain. Marcel’s chief concern is bringing the human touch back to design, ushering in what he calls design’s ‘new age;’ in which designer, craftsperson and user are reunited.
— Zeppelin lamp, Flos 2005 / Love chair, Moooi 2013 / Container Bowl, Moooi 2006 / Knotted Chair, Droog 1996 / Crochet Collection, Moooi 2015 / Parent Chair, Moooi 2009
Regarded by many as an anomaly in the design world, Marcel has made his mission to “create an environment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting dreams come true”.
In Marcel’s universe, the coldness of industrialism is replaced instead by the poetry, fantasy and romance of different ages, vividly brought to life in the contemporary moment.