MOOOI: CREATOR OF THE THEATRAL PLACES BY MARCEL WANDERS & TEAMS
MOOOI NEW COLLECTION 2015
FROM
MARCEL WANDERS: BEHIND THE CEILING
The
world of design is rapidly changing, from a once-hermetic reality into a more
human, accessible and versatile environment. Design is opening up and finding
its way to a broader audience, as more and more people become interested in the
way design contributes to their lives. Within the world of design, I can sense
the will, power and potential to direct our creative talents toward areas and
people our dreams have never touched before. We should use this momentum to
reach out and broaden the significance of our creative field. For too long now,
we have kept the world of design small and secluded, shutting out many new
friends in the process.
As a
consequence of this horizontal growth in design over the last 10 years, I am
starting to feel the need for vertical growth as well. There is an urge and
commitment to grow toward greater depth, to touch people in a more profound,
unique and personal way. Design can outgrow its traditional cultural value and
aspire to work on a grander scale, giving more, moving the hearts of its
audience in unknown, deeper and more individual directions. Tomorrow, we must
be better creators, give more, touch others more deeply. Design is a
wonderfully direct instrument, as it connects to daily life. It sits, in fact,
right at its core.
Design
can exist at the very heart of humanity. It holds within it and expresses the
desire, challenge and need to be right in the midst of life, where our audience
live and live together. Where high art may have lost its meaning and purpose in
our daily lives, becoming increasingly abstract and isolated in its own world,
design can be the creative spirit that connects to people in an intensely
personal way. We can reach out with ideas and dream the impossible. We can
connect to a global audience, sharing the beauty of our surroundings to inspire
the ongoing creation of our lives.
Both
directions, horizontal and vertical, can work together in inspiring our
audience; there are great values to share, stories to tell, dreams to be
realised. We can develop an audience in many ways, and I view it as a personal
challenge to be part of this growth.
In this
installation, I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to
create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design. I wanted to create
intimate personal objects, close to my heart, close to my hands; from my
studio, straight to you. Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and
inspire, to touch other and help make lives magic and wonderful.
I
created a dream garden of lightness, a garden of wonders. A place to feel life
in a different pace, life connected to the uncertainty of new connections,
dance connected to space and sound. Frozen flower fossils come alive, Topiary
melts its identity with flowers and creates crafted characters, potent while
frozen for lifetime, frozen skeletons, captured in pots which feed them but
keep them from going. Silent pets waiting for a home. Personal time captured in
bleu painted skin and frozen motion of fingers in clay, creating individuality
on ongoing basis, man is machine. Girls in fancy painted dresses floating
through a room dressed up as silent bells absorbing the music in their dance of
lightness. The shadow of the man with the golden nose is watching, as if he
shows his opposite side, his inside.
Design
is the unexpected welcome.
You may
visit Marcel Wanders’s past exhibition news at Stedelijk Museum to click below
link from my blog archive.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/02/marcel-wanders-pinned-up-at-stedelijk.html
MONSTER CHAIR DIVING MELANGE DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
MONSTER BAR STOOL DIVING MELANGE DESIGN BY MARCEL
WANDERS
ARION DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
MOOOI
CARPETS 2015
Moooi
Carpets offers a collection of outstanding quality and beauty, with a wide
range of carpet designs and countless customizing possibilities to always find
the perfect match for any kind of interior.
The
Moooi brand has always been about bringing additional beauty to people’s lives
by decorating homes, offices and hotel rooms with iconic and innovative pieces
of furniture and lighting. Now the moment has come for Moooi to launch a
refined carpet collection with a rich assortment of unique, breathtaking
designs, which accomplish the same 'Moooi' effect by generating beauty in an
iconic way and fulfilling wishes in terms of quality, uniqueness, design
variety and project specifications.
Moooi
Carpets reinvents the carpet and opens up new horizons in the design world by
introducing a technology that generates extremely high definition prints, which
can even result in photo realistic flooring solutions. All the carpets combine
an endless mix of colours thanks to the use of a groundbreaking high definition
Chromojet printer and its accurate tones, which generate a playful illusion of
depth. The collection counts on a broad variety of possibilities, being
composed by three different families: the Signature, Moooi Works and Your Own
Design. Each family group offers a number of different solutions to meet the
many demands of projects and individual taste. 'Design your own carpet, retouch
a Moooi Works carpet with 648 different colours or buy your favourite Signature
carpet print. Moooi Carpets has it all. It’s the reinvention of the carpet!'
proudly announces Moooi’s CEO Casper Vissers.
The
surreal, eye-catching designs of the Signature Carpets convey a sense of depth,
intensity and motion. 48 breathtaking, eccentric and playful carpets designed
by renowned names of the design, fashion and visuals arts worlds such as Bas
Kosters, Bertjan Pot, Broersen en Lukács, Edward van Vliet, Front, Jurgen Bey,
Klaus Haapaniemi, Maison Christian Lacroix, Marcel Wanders, Marian Bantjes,
Neri&Hu, Ross Lovegrove, Sonya Pletes and Studio Job. Each creation
represents its designer and the amazing world of his/her expertise and
imagination. Next to these printed carpets, Moooi Carpets presents also 5
'jacquard' woven carpets by Marcel Wanders, which, with sophisticated and
refined details, reproduce flat woven designs of 3D images that appear to be
literally carved into the carpets.
The
Moooi Works Carpets make for the best silent friends of any interior
environment. They are a basic collection that includes a selection of
straightforward yet refined designs. Helpful customizing options (colours and
size) have been implemented in order to achieve 'the' perfect carpet match for
all. Pleasant and elegant, these stylish carpets harmoniously blend into their
surroundings, bringing along a final touch of colour, composition, structure
and warmth.
CONTINUATION
SHEET
Your
Own Design offers the tools to develop and produce a tailor made carpet design.
During this process the Moooi Carpets team follows clients’ wishes step by
step, proposing the best solutions to create a unique carpet match for each
project and its individual needs. In this case the clients become the designers.
This is
just the beginning of a new platform that will lead to the most unique ways of
creating, customizing and developing flooring solutions. In the near future
Moooi Carpets expects to grow in different directions by exploring even more
options to offer carpets matching everyone’s wishes and dreams.
Moooi
Carpets proposes a vast, exclusive carpet collection, from signature jewels
that always leave guests breathless to beautiful designs that finish off an
interior with a dash of colour and heaps of style!
www.moooi.com
REMNANT 2 CARPET DESIGN BY NERI & HU
FREAKY CARPET DESIGN BY BERTJAN POT
REMNANT 1 CARPET DESIGN BY NERI & HU
DRY CARPET DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
EDEN QUEEN CARPET DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
TOMORROW CARPET DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
CHARLES CHAIR DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
RAIMOND TENSEGRITY FLOOR LAMP DESIGN BY RAIMOND PUTS
RAIMOND
PUTS
The
Moooi Team is truly sorry to hear of the loss of Raimond Puts.
Raimond
will always be remembered by Moooi as 'The man who brought the starry sky
into our homes'.
If
there is some sort of thread that travels through the life of Raimond Puts
(1937 - 2012) then it must be that of technical engineering. The machine
designer he later became developed this talent already at a very early age when
he played around with his meccano toy box. Technical science has fascinated him
since. During his technical education he was trained in the craft of metalwork
and owing to this a new world opened up for him.
About
thirty years ago he began building models from cheap materials like strip–iron,
mosquito nets & paper. He became attracted to the challenges of making
geometric shapes & models. Over the years he has experimented with all
sorts of shapes & materials. He searches for solutions to the practical
problems he encounters with an angel-like patience & determination. Over
the years his constructions have become more refined and by making use of the
LED-technique, Raimond has found an extremely productive combination. In his
work he searched for the ideal integration of beauty & functionality. In
his designs he always searched for the essence & creates from minimal
means, maximum results.
He was
not only interested in the exterior results. His objects stand as models for a
world in which everything is connected to everything else. Everything fits
perfectly. This conceptual simplicity inspired him to continue searching for
newer constructions. In them, he found peace & continous surprises.
In 2010
Raimond Puts won the best Woonproduct of 2010 Award (Sanoma Woon
Awards) with the Raimond light.
DEXTER SINISTER CARPET DESIGN BY JURGEN BEY
FROM
MARCEL WANDERS
I
remember my first design years in the early 80's.
I was
studying design, totally enthusiastic and ready to change the
world! Design was a deep and refined cultural medium according to me, able
to touch humanity in a subtle and caring way and guide it to new unprecedented
heights. I looked for all the little and bigger philosophies and ideas to
support my growing knowledge and dreams. Reacting to my endless enthusiasm
my teachers and my other design-heroes used to give me their "more
realistic" view and told me "Marcel, it's terrible, the people in the
street are ignorant, stupid and traditional. They're not interested in the
great future designs we try to realize. They have no sense of taste and are
unwilling to follow us". I was shocked and couldn't understand why
we, being the hero's of the future, were so incredibly misunderstood and left
alone.
Later I
started understanding that in fact our point of view was outdated and that our
works were conceptually as well as also visually based on a design theory and
sense of style which was created for the first years of the industrial
revolution and the baby-days of industrial design. Architects and designers
strived to produce products that could be made by machines and that would help
create welfare, equality and a political foundation for democracy. They created
works that celebrated the poor possibilities of the available machinery. In
this period bending metal tubes and cutting wood with a machine were considered
small miracles. Designers created products that were easy to manufacture but
difficult to communicate to an audience which was used to beautiful, crafted,
ornamented objects.
Unfortunately
this once interesting quest became a stylistic dogma which is still today
controlling the works of design. The industry is far more capable of creating
great fantastic products but we still follow the traditional dogma and we don't
use the industry's full potential. We still feel the need to make things easy,
economic, functional and simple instead of inspiring and brilliant (just
imagine this would be the qualities of a gift you get from your lover). When I
finished school I started understanding that our public perhaps was not so much
interested in our so well-engineered works because it wasn't meaningful enough to
them and they were looking for more inspirational media. They were just not so
interested in our ancient (design) philosophy and they wanted more out of life.
If I look into the hearts of people, sometimes I can sense what they dream of. If I talk to them I can understand their needs. Their need for surprise, for security, for contribution and growth, for individuality and familiarity. Humanity creates an endless flow of illusions and hope.
If I look into the hearts of people, sometimes I can sense what they dream of. If I talk to them I can understand their needs. Their need for surprise, for security, for contribution and growth, for individuality and familiarity. Humanity creates an endless flow of illusions and hope.
So many
girls want to be beautiful princesses or flying elves, so many boys want to
feel cunning knights or wise kings. Why don't we make it our goal to realize
those dreams, contribute deeply to the lives of others and ourselves in the
meantime. We are allowed to speak the universal language of design which can be
an inspiration to so many if we find the right words to speak.
It is
our responsibility to be magicians, to be jesters, to be alchemists, to create
hope where there is only illusion, to create reality where there are only
dreams.
We
cannot work for the company who pays us, we have to work for our public and
create great value for them, we can no longer use humanity to serve technology,
we have to use technology to serve humanity.
This
text is the foreword for 'Twenty-First-Century Design: New Design Icons
from Mass Market to Avant-Garde', Marcus Fairs ed. London: Carlton Book,
2006.
MOOOI AMSTERDAM OFFICE
MOOOI AMSTERDAM OFFICE
POWER NAP SOFA DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
COLOUR GLOBE BY SCHOLTEN & BAIJINGS
MOOOI CARPETS 2015
CRYSTAL ROSE CARPET DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
CELESTIAL CARPET DESIGN BY EDWARD VAN VLIET
HEAVENS GATE CARPET DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
ITS PARTY TIME CARPET DESIGN BY BAS KOSTERS
CARBON BAR STOOL DESIGN BY BERTJAN POT
MAGIC MARKER CARPETS 2015 DESIGN BY BERTJAN POT
BERTJAN
POT
Bertjan
Pot is a designer, probably best known for his Random Light (1999). The
light started as a material experiment, which is basically the start of each
product created by Studio Bertjan Pot. The outcome is usually an interior
product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and
colors. Most experiments start quite impulsively by a certain curiosity
for how things would function or how something would look. From there Bertjan
takes on challenges with manufacturers to explore possibilities and push the
boundaries a bit. The reward for each challenge is a new one. Studio
Bertjan Pot works with manufacturers such as Arco, Established & Sons,
Feld, Gelderland, Montis, Moooi and Richard Lampert.
SPACE FRAME LAMP DESIGN BY MARCEL WANDERS
COPPELIA LAMP DESIGN BY ARIHIRO MIYAKE
ARIHIRO
MIYAKE
(Born
in 1975 / Kobe, Japan)
Graduated
from Kobe Design University, Japan in 1999 and Master degree in furniture and
spatial design at Aalto University, Finland in 2002. After he had worked at a
few design studios in Helsinki and Milan, in 2004, he established own design
studio “Studio Arihiro Miyake” in Helsinki, Finland. The studio works
internationally on the diverse design projects from the restaurant/exhibition
architect to furniture/lighting designs. Arihiro is looking for the immortal
aesthetics upon the innovative and technical challenges.
CONTAINER TABLE BODHI WITH LINOAK TOP DESIGN BY MARCEL
WANDERS
MOOOI: NEW LONDON SHOWROOM
MOOOI:
CREATOR OF THE THEATRAL PLACES BY MARCEL WANDERS & TEAMS
For
more than ten years Moooi has inspired and seduced the world with sparkling and
innovative designs.
The
venture founded in 2001 by Marcel Wanders and Casper
Vissers is named after their native Dutch word for beautiful – the third
‘o’ in the brand name stands for an extra value in terms of beauty &
uniqueness. From 1 September 2015 onwards Robin
Bevers assumed the position of Moooi CEO, taking over this role
from Moooi co-founder Casper Vissers.
Since
2013 the company’ art direction is in the hands of Marcel Wanders
and Desirée de Jong. Two creative souls that lead the company’s creative
potential. Wanders and Vissers maintain an influence in all inclusions to the
brand, being both responsible for the overall design selection.
In
addition to Marcel Wanders’ designs, the Moooi portfolio contains a range of
work from other nationally and internationally recognized designers. These
include, amongst others, Jurgen Bey, Bertjan Pot, Maarten Baas, Jaime Hayon,
Neri & Hu, Joost van Bleiswijk, Studio Job and Nika Zupanc.
The
collection’ style is exclusive, daring, playful, exquisite and based on the
belief that design is a question of love. Timeless objects of beauty which
posses the uniqueness and character of antiques combined with the freshness of
modern times. This fusion brings the brand to focus on the production of iconic
objects.
With
this unique and iconic mix of lighting, furniture and accessories, which
outlast everyday interiors, Moooi creates interior environments decorated with
an inspiring variety of patterns and colours to embrace any kind of space and
make people of different ages, cultures and personalities fall in love with
their homes.
This
unexpected home vision brings to life a whole world of new ideas and inspiring
complete Moooi settings to brighten up daily life with a touch of magic. They
represent places where visions converge and where everyone can stop and feel
comfortable within the perfect eclectic mix of culture & experiences that
makes a home environment more beautiful and unique.
MOOOI AMSTERDAM OFFICE
"Here to create an environment of love, live with
passion and make our most
exciting dreams come true."
exciting dreams come true."
Marcel Wanders
MARCEL
WANDERS
Marcel
Wanders (Boxtel, 1963) graduated cum laude from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
(ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) in Arnhem in 1988 after being expelled from
Eindhoven Design Academy. In 1995 he opened his studio in the beating heart of
the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, quickly coming to worldwide attention in 1996 for
his iconic Knotted Chair, which paired high tech
materials with ‘low tech’ production methods.
Today
Marcel’s powerhouse studio numbers around 50 international design specialists,
and he is a prolific product and interior designer and art director, ubiquitous
with over 1700+ projects to his name for private clients and premium brands
such as Alessi, Bisazza, KLM, Flos, Swarovski,
Puma, among scores of others.
Regarded
by many as an anomaly in the design world, Marcel has made it his mission to
“create an environment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting
dreams come true.” His work excites, provokes, and polarises, but never fails
to surprise for its ingenuity, daring and singular quest to uplift the human
spirit, and entertain.
With
this track record, it’s no surprise that the New York Times dubbed Marcel the
“Lady Gaga of Design,” or that Business Week selected him as one of Europe’s ’25
leaders of change.’ In 2006, Elle Decoration awarded Marcel the prestigious title
of ‘Designer of the Year.’ Other award wins include the Philadelphia Museum of
Art's modern design collaborative award, Collab, and the Design Excellence
Award for Marcel’s significant contribution to the field of design in 2009.
In his
designs Marcel often mixes innovative materials and techniques with references
to well known historical styles and archetypes, so users can easily connect to
the pieces, enjoying them for a long time and in doing so create sustainable
surroundings.
Marcel’s
chief concern is bringing the human touch back to design, ushering in what he
calls design’s ‘new age;’ in which designer, craftsperson and user are
reunited. In his process, Marcel defies design dogma, preferring instead of
focus on holistic solutions rather than the technocratic. In Marcel’s 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.
In 2001
Marcel co-founded the successful design label Moooi, of which he is also Art Director.
Conceived as a platform for design talent from around the world, today the
company works with around 30 designers, has a presence in 79 countries and is
renowned for its quirky, eccentric but altogether inspired take on the objects
that surround us.
Interior
projects have become increasingly important in Marcel’s work, embraced for
their enveloping of people in multi-layered, sensory experiences. Notable
projects to date include such iconic interior architectural concepts as the
Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht, Kameha Grand hotel in Bonn, the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Miami, Quasar
Istanbul Residences, and the Villa
Moda flagship store in Bahrain - to name but a few - as well as
private residences in Amsterdam and Mallorca.
In
2012, Marcel celebrated the launch of his boldest interior project to date, the
aforementioned Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht Hotel,
operated by the Hyatt Hotels Corporation. House in the city’s former public
library,Andaz has been hailed as an experience akin to ‘Alice in Amsterdam,’ a
reference to the eponymous Lewis Carroll book, Alice in Wonderland.
Many of
Marcel’s designs have been selected for the most important design collections
and exhibitions in the world, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San
Francisco, London’s Victoria & Albert, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk, and
Rotterdam’s Boijmans van Beuningen. In late 2009, Marcel’s first
solo-exhibition, Daydreams, opened in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2012,
Marcel was invited to present a capsule collection at Beijing’s Capital
Museum and in 2014, Marcel Wanders: Pinned Up at the Stedelijk – 25 Years of
Design– his first major museum retrospective, is set to open at Amsterdam’s
premier contemporary art and design institution, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In
addition, Marcel regularly presents at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan.
Marcel
has been featured in numerous major design magazines
including Domus, Interni, Blueprint, Design
Report, Frame, I.D., Abitare,NWallpaper*, Nylon, Elle Decoration, Icon, and also in
leading news and lifestyle titles such as Esquire, International Herald
Tribune, Washington Post, the Financial Times, New York Times and NBusiness Week.
Marcel
is advisory board member for THNK, School of Creative Leadership, and has
participated in several THNK Forums discussing the topics like innovations, creativity and education.
