Marcel Wanders : Furniture

Marcel Wanders, a striking Dutch designer who always came up with strange creations such as

nest chairs, egg-shaped vases, or even lamps you can actually blow off just as you do to your candles!!

Wanders was born in Boxtel, the Netherlands in 1963. He has worked for the celebrated Droog Design ( *1) and has established his personal workshop by the year of 1995.

To get to know this guy, you can start with some little stuff you might need to better your house's appearance with these:

*Already starting to wonder what's this colorful oval thing function as, huh?

It's not the one your kids usually spent hours to finish colouring in order to win the competition

on the Easter Day... It's a coffee table!! The table is covered with Bisazza glass mosaic, presented in a way that may well be attractive to both the toddlers and their parents ....

*Ever seen such a delicately arranged pattern in a piece of wallpaper? Here you are, wandering into Wanders' world---a fantastic black-and-white world in which you behold no colours but had a strongly colorful impression on it! This collection is called "the Hexagon Wallpaper" which might reminds you of memory in childhood when you were reading an encyclopedia about the patterns of DNA ... and yet, not as graceful nor breathtaking as this one....

*Yes, you're now looking at Marcel Wanders most popular collections---the Eggvase!!

Certainly it's humorous and playful enough to make a vase into such a confusing shape and even come up with three different materials...

but let's not forget the fact that those eggvases have been recognized as one of the biggest projects for Droog Design!

*Allow me to introduce you----the "moooi boutique"series!! To trace back to the naming, Wanders simply provided us with one explanation: The phrase "mooi" is a Dutch word, meaning "beauty". The reason why he added an extra alphabet "o" in between accounts for Wanders' expectations and wishes to see this series turn out "extra beautiful".

---To Be Continued---

*1: Droog Design: a famous organization established by Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers. The two founders cooperate with designers worldwide. Droog in Dutch means "dry", expressing their cconcepts of designing which is simple, original and not over-decorated.