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Introduction

DESIGN OR ART?

“I am here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true.”

Marcel Wanders is the enfant terrible of the international design scene. He does away with all rigid rules and cannot be pigeonholed. To put it shortly: Wanders is a liberator. As such, he gets down to work and frees the ideas of his exuberant imagination, translating them into projects that surely have more in mind beyond pure function. Only a creative mind like Wanders could come up with an idea such as the “One Minute Sculpture,” which he makes with his own hands and then gilds, as though on a production line. An homage to a golden handcraft and simultaneously a humorous critique of mass production.

Wanders is also an avowed fan of, to put it in his own words, the grandest design achievement of all time: evolution. With this in mind, his photographs Three Queens seem like fantastic portraits of three queen bees that complaisantly and stylishly or with cool distance rein over an “environment of love.” A honeycomb-like background alienates the quintessentially beautiful creatures.

“Photography is the most influential medium, I think. It makes the most bizarre realities look as normal as the girl next door, makes illusions accessible, and lets us feel connected to all the magnificent things the world has to offer,” according to Wanders, whose works can be seen in MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco, and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Horst Klöver

Bio

1963	born in Boxtel near Amsterdam, Netherlands
1981-1982	Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving (design academy), Eindhoven, Netherlands
1982-1985	Academie voor Toegepaste kunsten, Maastricht, Netherlands
1983-1985	Academie voor Schone kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium
1985-1988	Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnheim, Netherlands
	Cum Laude Certificate 1988
seit 1988	freelance industrial and product designer
1989-1991	lecturer, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1990-1992	designer, Landmark Design & Consult b.v., Rotterdam, Netherlands
1990	lecturer, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991-1993	lecturer, Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1992	Wanders founds Droog Design, together with Dutch designers and concept artists
1992-1995	partner, WAAC's Design & Consults, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992	juror, Rotterdam Design Prize, Netherlands
1993-1994	lecturer, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995-2001	director, Wanders Wonder, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995	juror, Rotterdam Design Prize, Netherlands
1996	releases the famous "Knottet Chair", produced for Droog Design
1997	juror, Limperg Award, Netherlands
2000	founds "Moooi"
	juror, Kho Liang Ie Award, Netherlands
	juror, Françoise van den Bosch prize, Netherlands
	project director, Vitra Summer Workshops, France
	lecturer, SFMoMa, USA
	lecturer, trend-forecasts, Netherlands Fashion Forecast Institute
2001	project director, Vitra Summer Workshops, France
	lecturer, Limn, San Francisco, USA
	lecturer, Design Academy, Niederlande
	founds Marcel Wanders studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003	lecturer, FutureDesignDays, Boras, Sweden
ab 2004	art director and co-owner, LUTE SUITES, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	lecturer, Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA
	lecturer, Design Festival, Portland, USA
2005	guest editor, The International Design Yearbook 2005
	interior design, restaurants Blits, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	interior design, restaurant Thor (Hotel on Rivington, New York, USA)
	lecturer, Thailand Creative and Design Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
	lecturer, International Dutch Design Congress, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Awards

2007	Visionary! Artist Award, Museum of Arts and Design
2006	Designer of the Year, Elle Decoration International Design Awards
	Designer of the Year 2006, Magazin Gioia Casa, Italy
	Best interior professional for Moooi, Dutch Woonawards
2005	Elle Decoration International Design Award for "Carbon Chair", Design by Bertjan Pot et Marcel Wanders for Moooi
2004	Löberschütz design competition, Munich, Germany
2003	Selected amongst Europe's 25 Leaders of Change by Business Week (USA)
	Elle Decoration International Design Award for "Patchwork Plates"
	Winner, Vredeman de Vries Vormgevingsprijs for "Patchwork Plates"
	Best furniture or lighting for residential interiors, FX award for Moooi collection
2002	Man of the Year, MAN (Dutch magazine)
2000	George Nelson Award, Interiors Magazine
	Alterpoint Design Award, Milan, Italy
1998	Winner, Woonbeurspin, Netherlands
	Honorable mention in Compasso d'Oro, Italy
1990	1st prize, design competition, "Staande indoor lamp", Amsterdam, Netherlands
1989	1st prize, design competition, Verzamelband, iON Rotterdam, Netherlands
1986	1st prize, design competition, Olympic Design 1992
	1st prize, design competition, Café Modern (Nescafé), Netherlands

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
V&A Museum, London, UK
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Central Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

Exhibitions

2006	Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005	Hong Kong Electronics Fair, Hongkong
	Touch me, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
	Nest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Simply Droog, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
	Museum at FIT, New York, USA
2004	Interior Design Show, Toronto, Canada
	Design Lab Nike, Portland, USA
	100% Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Bulthaup Center, design gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
	100% design, London, UK
	Creativity Observatory, Genova, Italy, curated by Alessandro and Francesco Mendini, Italy
2003	Can of Gold project at Noel Hennesy Furniture, London, UK
	Het onstaan der Dingen, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Salone del Mobili, light installation, pirouette for Swarovski, Crystal Palace, Milan, Italy
2002	Body Design, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), USA
	Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
	Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, Cooper-Hewitt, New York, USA
	Milan in a Van – one designer show, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
	Opening, new Moooi showrooms, Breda, Netherlands
	Home Made Holland, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK
2001	Limn (design interior shop), San Francisco, USA
	Marcel Wanders - Moooi in Amstelveen, wooncentrum Co van der Horst, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2000	Search for Art exhibition, Milan, Italy
	Hitec-Lotec exhibition, touring exhibition, UK (until 2002)
	Dutch Design, Ozone, Living Design Centre, Tokyo, Japan
	Wanders Wanted expo, Gallery Material Connection, New York, USA
	Design World, Taideteollisuus Museum, Helsinki, Finland
	Droog design, touring exhibition, USA
	Droog Design, Israel Museum, Israel
1999	Wanders Wonders expo, Gallery TZ Art, New York, USA
1998	Material innovation gallery, Material Connexion, New York, USA
	Materials in design, Österreichisches Institut für Formgebung, Vienna, Austria
	IAA, Internationale Automobil Ausstellung, Frankfurt, Germany
1997	The Ecology Series 1 Glamour, Material Connexion, New York, USA
	Mutant Materials in contemporary design, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
	Stilwerk Design Center GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
	Materials in design, Tekniska Mässan, Stockholm, Sweden
	Industrial Technology Congress, Toulouse, France
	The Institute of Materials, London, UK
1996	Scanning, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Tresholds, MOMA, New York, USA
	Dry tech, Droog Design, Milan, Italy
	Mentalitäten, Design Center Stuttgart, Germany
1995	Mentalitäten, Securitas Galerie, Bremen, Germany
1993	An art collection of combs, Mikimoto, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
	Made in Holland, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
	World-expo, World Expo, Taipé, Taiwan
	Droog Design, selection of Dutch design, Pastoe showroom, Milan, Italy
1992	Materiaal, stof voor vormgeving, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Dutch Design, ITB, Bandung, India
1990	Embarrassment of riches, EEG congress, Avignon, France