Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders His chief concern is to bring the human touch back to design, ushering in a ‘new age of design’, in which designer, craftsperson and user are reunited.

Marcel Wanders is a leading product and interior designer with over 2500+ iconic products and interior design experiences worldwide for private clients and premium brands. Marcel Wanders is a leading product and interior designer with over 1,900 + iconic product and interior design experiences all around the globe for private clients and premium brands such as Alessi, Baccarat, Bisazza, Christofle

, Kosé Corporation/ Decorté, Flos, KLM, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, LH&E Group, Louis Vuitton, Miramar Group, Morgans Hotel Group, Puma among scores of others. Marcel Wanders 30 years of design are celebrated in some of the most renowned art and design museums, including Centre Pompidou FR; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, US; Metropolitan Museum of Art, US; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US; Museum of Modern Art, US; Pinakotheke der Moderne, Munich, DE; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Oita Prefectural Art Museum, JP among others. Regarded by many as an anomaly in the design world, Marcel Wanders has made his mission to “create an environment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting dreams come true.” The work excites, provokes, and polarises, but never fails to surprise for its ingenuity, daring and singular quest to uplift the human spirit, and entertain. In this process, Marcel Wanders defies design dogma, preferring instead to focus on holistic solutions rather than the technocratic. In this 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. www.marcelwanders.com

28/05/2026

A special and important theme for Marcel; the meaning of gifting & giving and how this grew into his entire design philosophy.

Long before design became his profession, Marcel was already making gifts. As a child, in the back room of his parents’ shop, broken objects became his small inventions, improvised sculptures and thoughtful gestures for family and friends. What stayed with him was never his creation itself but the moment it changed hands. What fascinated him was never ownership, but what happened in the moment of giving. The object disappeared and something invisible appeared in its place: affection, recognition, connection. This unique feeling stayed with him. And not just stayed, but years later, after becoming a Designer the same instinct showed through designs created for clients.

From playful worlds imagined for Target, to many collections for Marks & Spencer where gifting became ritual, to the festive theatre of Alessi Circus and the poetic beauty of the Decorté Holiday Coffrets for Kosé. Different materials, different moments, one special idea. Design, for Marcel Wanders, begins when imagination is offered to another person. Not as a possession, but as an act of generosity. Not to fill a space, but to enrich a moment, a life. Every piece carries a question that still guides his work today: will this make someone feel loved, recognised, celebrated or remembered.

A tribute to revelation. For its tenth anniversary, Qeeboo orchestrated something extraordinary, inviting some of the mo...
24/05/2026

A tribute to revelation. For its tenth anniversary, Qeeboo orchestrated something extraordinary, inviting some of the most influential voices in contemporary design to reinterpret its iconic Rabbit Chair through entirely personal narratives. Among them, Marcel Wanders transformed this playful creation into something mythological. Please meet, Marcello Vaga, Re del Giardino, the wandering spirit shaped through fairytale, craft and emotional symbolism.
Thanks to Marcel Wanders, this democratic pop design reveals its hidden destiny. Where Stefano Giovannoni worked through industrial clarity and iconic immediacy, Marcel Wanders responds with ritual, ornament and emotional depth. The white ceramic body turns into a sacred surface for the hand. The Delft Blue painting, executed entirely by hand, bears his unmistakable signature: a choreography of gesture, memory and cultural layering. Painted across the rabbit's back, it reads almost as a tattooed blessing, a mark of identity bestowed with tenderness.

Marcel Wanders placed his signature golden bell, hanging from a beautifully braided cord around Marcello Vaga’s neck. Here, the bell emerges as a symbol of guardianship, an amulet transforming the creature into a sentinel of the home, a collector and ruler of secrets and stories. A classical lidded vase resting on the rabbit's back, together with ruby eyes set in silver and a black diamond nose, lends this unique creature a soul and a gaze that feels ancient and knowing. In this way, Marcello Vaga, Re del Giardino fulfils its destiny: evolving into a legend, free to wander and gather stories.

Congratulations to Qeeboo on this uniquely celebrated anniversary!

The Marcel Wanders Collection for Fendi Casa welcomed new additions to the Five seating system during Milan Design Week ...
23/05/2026

The Marcel Wanders Collection for Fendi Casa welcomed new additions to the Five seating system during Milan Design Week 2026, introducing a new armchair and tabletop shaped through elegance, softness and quiet precision. Every curve feels deliberate, every proportion resolved with ease, allowing comfort and refinement to exist without tension. Within the world of Fendi Casa, Marcel composes interiors the way a master tailor shapes a silhouette: fluid, sensual and impossible to separate from the atmosphere they create around them.

A true passion for perfection. At Milan Design Week 2026, Marcel Wanders continued his long standing collaboration with ...
20/05/2026

A true passion for perfection. At Milan Design Week 2026, Marcel Wanders continued his long standing collaboration with Baccarat through the presentation of the New Antiques Collection, a body of work shaped around his fascination with crystal and light. For Marcel, crystal is never a static matter. It dissolves into reflections, atmosphere and illusion, becoming almost invisible while revealing the full emotional force of light itself. With Baccarat’s extraordinary mastery, these pieces carry both fragility and grandeur, where antique references are stripped of nostalgia and charged instead with clarity, radiance and contemporary elegance.

After years of shaping candle holders in countless forms and materials, the real surprise arrives with the launch of Whi...
18/05/2026

After years of shaping candle holders in countless forms and materials, the real surprise arrives with the launch of Whisper and Echo for Moorgen. In these new designs, Marcel Wanders brings together the silhouette of the candle with contemporary illumination, turning both pieces into true protagonists of his manifesto for reinstating living light. The familiar ritual of the flame remains present, yet transformed through reflection, restraint and atmosphere into something unmistakably contemporary.

Whisper is a table light of crystalline restraint, a contemporary candlestick that functions not as a centrepiece but as what Marcel calls a third voice at the table, one that modulates tempo, softens edges and deepens the atmosphere of gathering without ever announcing itself. Echo, conceived as a wall sconce, turns projection logic inside out entirely: the light faces backwards, meeting a curved reflector that returns it to the room as a softened, delayed shimmer. The illumination arrives transformed, as echoes always do.
Across both pieces, the ambition remains precise and uncompromising: light not as brightness but as presence, not as utility but as atmosphere.

The living light story continues through candle holders designed for Baccarat, from the early United Crystal Woods to th...
17/05/2026

The living light story continues through candle holders designed for Baccarat, from the early United Crystal Woods to the refined language of the New Antique Collection. Across these works, crystal became something far beyond ornament. Forests appeared across tables, candlesticks stretched into dreamlike proportions, and delicate filigree met the depth of heavily cut crystal. Marcel approached these objects almost as fragments from another world, carrying traces of Dutch lace traditions alongside the enchantment and theatricality long associated with Baccarat craftsmanship. Light moved through each piece softly and with great elegance.

From La Forêt des Songes to Les Esprits des Bois, the collections unfolded through contrasts of weight and delicacy, reflection and shadow, intimacy and monumentality. Crystal bases carried engraved candle holders, that could stand alone or gather into larger compositions, transforming the table into an atmospheric landscape. In Les Esprits des Bois, dreamlike deer emerged through polished stainless steel candelabras crowned with engraved crystal elements, bringing an almost mythical presence into the collection. Even the smallest objects carried a sense of narrative, as seen in Mirage Dual, where a vase, candle holder merged into a single multifaceted form.

There was a time when light carried the mood of a room, shifting with the evening and holding people together in a quiet...
16/05/2026

There was a time when light carried the mood of a room, shifting with the evening and holding people together in a quiet, almost invisible rhythm. In celebration of International Day of Light, Marcel Wanders returns to this sensibility with his manifesto of reinstating living light into our lives. Marcel reflects on how illumination moved from something responsive and atmospheric into something constant and indifferent. What was once intimate became uniform. His position calls for a return to nuance, where illumination regains its ability to shape experience, to accompany rather than dominate, to restore a sense of presence within everyday life.

The fascination with candles and candle holders has always been deeply rooted in Marcel’s work. Since the early Droog years, he continuously returned to these objects as carriers of atmosphere, ritual and emotion, closely aligned with his passion for poetry and visual storytelling. Over the decades Marcel Wanders created several candle holders for clients including Target, Bijenkorf, Marks & Spencer, Alessi, Randstad, Goods, Christofle, Starbucks and Moooi. Steel, ceramics, silver plated surfaces and glass each became part of this enduring exploration. Different materials, different expressions, yet always the same pursuit: giving light intimacy, character and human closeness once again.

16/05/2026

Milan Design Week 2026 unfolded as an intense schedule for Marcel Wanders, filled with inspirational talks, product launches, press interviews, partner meetings, and ongoing exchanges. Conversations such as What’s Next Envisioning the Future through Design, Technology, and Nature brought forward a perspective grounded in responsibility rather than prediction. Marcel spoke at Superstudio about the role of design in shaping not only objects, but behaviours and expectations.

Each meeting carried a sense of purpose, where ideas were tested, refined, and sometimes challenged outright. Engagements moved between public discussions and private conversations, each contributing to a broader understanding of where design is heading. Milan, once again, became a point of convergence for partners, collaborators, and long-standing relationships.
To everyone who contributed their time and commitment, thank you for making this edition meaningful. And a special thanks to … Bar Basso!

15/05/2026

Superstudio Più, where memory and intention met without compromise. This Milan Design Week 2026 was simply different, remarkable. Moooi 25 and Promising returned to the site where it all began, marking twenty-five years with a presence that felt both precise and unapologetically expansive. At Superstudio, Moooi shaped a series of installations that carried their own distinct character, each one revealing a diverse facet of the brand’s imagination.

Marcel Wanders approached the anniversary not as a retrospective, but as a moment to recalibrate what design can express today. The environments moved between control and unpredictability, where familiar forms were carefully unsettled. Materials and technologies intertwined with a clarity that never felt fully resolved, leaving space for interpretation. Beyond the exciting new designs, something raw, rough, and reflective emerged, wrapped in silver, seen in pieces like the silver edition of the Monster Chair, BFF sofa, and Container table. It was a celebration that resisted nostalgia, choosing instead to question its own legacy. Objects carried emotion without sentimentality, and spaces suggested stories without closing them.

Thank you to Superstudio Design for this amazing venue, and to all collaborators and partners for making this 25th milestone celebration unforgettable!

Taking on the role of Guest Editor for Grazia during Milan Design Week 2026 marked an important moment for Marcel Wander...
10/05/2026

Taking on the role of Guest Editor for Grazia during Milan Design Week 2026 marked an important moment for Marcel Wanders. In this special edition dedicated to the future of design, Marcel wrote in his The Art of Being Human editor’s letter about the effects of technology on our lives, on design, and on how we approach this new reality.

According to Marcel, imagination, contradiction, and emotion remain the true drivers of design. As machines refine their precision, he points to a growing desire for what carries the trace of time and touch. The imperfect, the aged, and the handmade return not as trends, but as necessities. He challenges the discipline for leaning too heavily on what can be produced, rather than what can be felt. In this, intuition stands alongside knowledge, not beneath it. Marcel describes the future with depth and meaning, not only focusing on efficiency. Creativity expands, not despite artificial intelligence, but because of it.

“The future is calling us to rise, to create with more depth, more sensitivity, more wonder than ever before. If we answer that call, we will not only shape the next chapter of design, but we will also shape a new chapter of humanity.” Marcel Wanders

With photography by Ellen von Unwerth and covers featuring Vittoria Puccini, Gaia, Alessandra Mastronardi, and Sara Serraiocco, thank you to Grazia for this wonderful collaboration!

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