MARCEL WANDERS - NOSE
Marcel Wanders shows great respect for traditional craft values in his design
work, while being equally at home with new technology. He also designs jewellery
with a conceptual and humorous character. His latest piece - disguised as
a comedy nose - can be worn as a stylish necklace. 'It is a spherical interpretation
of world karma. We decide whether it reflects the inside world or the outside
world, depending on where we look.'
Marcel Wanders was born in Boxtel in 1963 and works as a designer in Amsterdam.
He studied at Eindhoven's Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving, the
Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Maastricht, the Academie voor Schone
Kunsten in Hasselt and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem.
Prizes: nominated for the Rotterdam Design Prize in 1993 and 1997; Kho Liang
Ie Incentive Prize, Amsterdam, 1996; honourable mention at the Compasso
d'Oro in 1998.
Marcel Wanders has designed furniture, products and lighting for clients
including Cappellini, Boffi & Magis, Flos, Rosenthal, Droog Design,
Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Swatch, Mandarine Duck and Cacharel.
He designed a promotional gift for the EU's Amsterdam Summit in 1997, won
the competition to design medals for the Gay Games in Amsterdam in 1998
and designed the VIP Lounge in the Holland Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Marcel Wanders' designs feature in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centraal Museum
Utrecht. His best-known designs include 'Knotted Chair' (1996) for Droog
Design, 'Sponge Vase' (1997) for Rosenthal/Droog Design and 'Shadows' (1998).
Solo-exhibition: 1999 Wanders Wonders - Design for a New Age, Museum Het
Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch.
Publication: Renny Ramakers, Andrea Branzi, Aaron Betsky, Paola Antonelli
and Bart Lootsma, Wanders Wonders - Design for a New Age, 010 Publishers,
Rotterdam, 1999.
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