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

With Lady Jane, Marcel Wanders imagined the salon as a place between intimacy and imagination, where every gesture of ca...
08/06/2026

With Lady Jane, Marcel Wanders imagined the salon as a place between intimacy and imagination, where every gesture of care is accompanied by an atmosphere of refinement. The collection carries a gentle and dreamlike character, where every object feels composed with extraordinary attention, from the rolling trolley adorned with a golden flower pull to the reception desk shaped with welcoming contours that invite human connection before a single word is spoken.

The collection revealed how profoundly furniture can influence emotion within a space dedicated to care and transformation. Marcel Wanders approached the salon as one would approach a grand interior, layering silhouettes, textures and light into a complete narrative. Lady Jane offers more than aesthetic refinement. It restores poetry to environments too often governed only by efficiency.

Photo credit: Selection of salons by Gamma & Bross

07/06/2026

A collection transforming a salon into a destination. For Marcel Wanders, comfort has never belonged to function alone. With the Lady Jane Collection, the human body became the starting point for an entire landscape of forms. The styling chair follows the posture of repose rather than performance, while the shampoo unit curves around its guest with the generosity of a lounge designed for stillness. Even the mirrors possess an almost theatrical presence, framed like garments worn by royal figures from another age.

Created over a two year process, this collection carries the ambition of transforming professional equipment into an emotional experience. Chrome, matt black and gold surfaces catch the light with quiet drama, while layered floral patterns bring depth and softness into the space. Marcel conceived Lady Jane as a destination rather than a setting, a place where elegance exists without contradiction.

Marcel Wanders has never confined his imagination to a single world or discipline. From grand interiors to delicate obje...
05/06/2026

Marcel Wanders has never confined his imagination to a single world or discipline. From grand interiors to delicate objects, his design language has always travelled freely between unexpected territories. With Lady Jane Collection for Gamma & Bross, Marcel brought this vision into the realm of professional beauty spaces, following the remarkable success of the earlier Collezione Privata. Rather than treating the salon as a purely functional environment, he envisioned it as a sanctuary shaped by comfort, elegance and emotional calm.

Mirrors rise like illuminated portraits from another century, chairs soften around the body as though remembering its shape, and every curve carries the serenity of a private retreat. Floral reliefs stitched into the upholstery introduce a tactile richness, while gold accents appear like fragments of jewellery scattered throughout the room. Lady Jane transforms the rituals of beauty into something intimate and atmospheric, where rest itself becomes part of the experience.

Photo credit: Gamma & Bross

04/06/2026

There is something beautifully direct about naming a collection Gift. Gifting has always held such a special place in Marcel Wanders’ world that, at one moment, it became an entire collection.
For Marcel, giving has never been an addition to design. It has always been one of its most beautiful forms. When Marcel Wanders created the Gift Collection for Colombo Via della Spiga, the idea was not symbolic. It became physical. Golden bows, black leather ribbons, interiors unfolding like wrapped surprises. Every detail treated travel not as movement but as occasion. The collection transformed luggage into ceremony and arrival into anticipation.

From the Party Trunk made for unforgettable evenings to the Trolley that opens like a present, from the Boston Bag hiding unexpected keepsakes to the Clutch carrying celebration in miniature, each piece followed the same belief that shaped Marcel’s work from the beginning: objects should give more than function. They should create a feeling before they are even opened. Because for Marcel Wanders, joy arrives in the giving and begins with the feeling of receiving something made with care.

03/06/2026

For Marcel Wanders, gifting never remained a childhood memory. It became one of the foundations of his design philosophy. Marcel often speaks about design as an act of generosity. Not generosity in scale or excess, but in attention. A meaningful design asks for imagination, empathy, care and the willingness to think beyond utility. Marcel has long argued that functionality is only the beginning. People do not keep objects because they work flawlessly. They keep them because these pieces carry affection, memory, longing, celebration or a moment they do not want to lose. This is why his work resists cold perfection and insists on beauty, ornament, fantasy and emotional richness. And this is why storytelling, and emotional richness remain so central to his creative language.

Marcel Wanders does not think of design as the making of products but as the shaping of relationships between people and the worlds they inhabit. A design piece should feel as though it belongs to the person receiving it, while still carrying the spirit of the person who created it. Somewhere between those two lives, meaning appears. That space of exchange is where design becomes human.

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.

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