Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders at LUMAS

Those limited artoworks, made by Marcel Wanders are distributed exclusively to authorized professional dealers – and thus are not available directly to retail customers through LUMAS. In our showroom, the UNISON-Haus, we showcase you an assortment of those editions within a very special ambience.

Please, visit our galerie, take your time to watch the originals and get inspired. Of course you can acquire each of them directly on spot.

Are you interested? First questions will be answered at: +49 3464 241 120 and for further information we are always give you personally professional advice.

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Vita

Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988.

Many works by Marcel Wanders have been selected for the most important design collections and exhibitions in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, the V&A Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum inAmsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Central Museum in Utrecht, Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen and various Droog Design exhibitions.

Marcel Wanders also works on architectural and interior design projects and recently turned his attention to consumer home appliances and design partnerships with companies of the caliber of Puma, designing the “I hate camping” collection.

Marcel Wanders’ artistic fame started with his iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996. He is now ubiquitous, designing for the leading European contemporary design manufacturers, including B&B Italia, Bisazza, Poliform, Moroso, Flos, Boffi, Cappellini, Droog Design and Moooi of which he is also art director and co-owner. Founded in 2000, Moooi has grown into an internationally renowned design label.

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.