Kickin' It: Astride a prop horse given to him by British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, Wanders roams the design landscape. | photograph by Jake Chessum
SoBe-autiful: A swooping laser-cut steel staircase will serve as the centerpiece for the lobby of the Wanders-designed $200 million Mondrian in South Beach, opening in December. | rendering by Marcel Wanders Studio
All of this has endeared Wanders to the Dutch government, which has embraced the idea that creativity can be the economic lifeblood of a city. But Wanders's Trumpian tendencies haven't always endeared him to his neighbors. "At one point, they said about Marcel, 'He's nothing but a real-estate millionaire!' " says Bevers. And that perception is only magnified by Wanders's tendency to hold himself at a distance. When I ask him if he's proud of Holland's success in the field -- and whether he considers himself a Dutch designer at all -- he hesitates: "No. No. To be honest, I don't particularly feel that in my expression of design."
Such exceptionalism, some critics argue, overlooks the fact that Wanders has benefited handsomely from the enormous support the Netherlands affords its artists and designers. To repudiate the Dutch label, they say, is to spurn the very culture that spawned him. "The Dutch are such spoiled brats," says MoMA's Antonelli, who curated a 1996 exhibit on contemporary design in the Netherlands. "And Marcel is king of them all."
Wanders counters that, while he loves his country, he thinks of himself more as an Amsterdammer than a Dutchman, and he sees the current "Dutch design" tag more as a marketing tool than as a movement or aesthetic in the mode of the Bauhaus or the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl. "People grab on to the label and want to be part of the big story," he says. "If I were them, I would do the same. But at the other end, I don't want to be part of it. I don't want to catch my own tail. I do what I do."
In August 2003, the day after the blackout in New York, Wanders gave a talk, called "The Naked Designer," to the Industrial Designers Society of America. It was billed as a discussion of how to design without fear and included 10 concepts and insights Wanders had learned in his practice. Stepping onto the stage in a nicely tailored suit, Wanders began by recounting a recent dream of standing nude before an audience. It was, he explained, one of the most frightening dreams he had ever experienced. "It's hot in here," he said, midspeech. "I hope you don't mind if I take off my jacket."
As the talk went on, each time he ticked through one of the 10 points on the screen, he took off another article of clothing. By No. 9, he was wearing only his shorts. By No. 10, he had stepped behind the podium, dropped his drawers, and was dressed only in a towel. As the moderator stepped onto the stage, Wanders exited, to raucous applause.
Suddenly, there was a new slide on the screen: RULE NO. 11: ALWAYS GIVE MORE THAN EXPECTED. That was when Wanders, sans towel, streaked from the back of the auditorium to the stage, threw candy into the crowd, and -- boom! -- the room went dark.
It's a story, says a now-clothed Wanders, over coffee in Milan, about the anxiety of the creative act. "You could, if you wanted, always be scared." Even today, he admits, once a new deal is signed, he retreats to the studio, where the inevitable moment of panic sets in. "There's a piece of white paper, and I have to make a design about something I have no idea about. That's when we say fuuuuccccckkk!"
Rule No. 11 was a life lesson Wanders had learned early and painfully. At 17, he enrolled at the Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands' most prestigious design school. He admits he had stumbled into the field, but after nine months of study, was certain he had found his calling. "I understood: This is the thing. I will be a designer, and this is the school," he says. Then disaster struck. At the end of his first year, he flunked out.
"I was incredibly devastated," Wanders recalls. He went to his professor to try to argue for a better grade, but the man was unmoved. By September, Wanders found himself at a little school for jewelers and craftspeople -- in Maastricht.
It was a fall from grace from which a lesser ego might have never recovered. But Wanders was determined. He vowed that for every assignment, he'd double the work -- one version the teacher would like and one reflecting his own interpretation of the project. He also developed his own curriculum, based partly on a purloined syllabus from Eindhoven.
Wanders ultimately transferred to Arnhem, which had a well-respected design program. By the time he graduated, he had a chair in production with a famous Dutch furniture company, an entry in an important international jewelry fair, and had won three design competitions, including one in which all 33 other contestants were from Eindhoven. His final school project was featured on the cover of a national design magazine.
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January 3, 2009 at 4:20pm by Omid Ellion
I'm wondering how did you selected these 12 people,though there are some people I admire in the list,But this guy... is he a fashion model or a designer?
I'm not talking the way he looks I'm talking about his words and therefore his thoughts.
And of course he is a designer,But he is just a designer.
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I really like Marcel Wanders, or maybe say i really liked him, because to be honest, since the last Milan Furniture Fair he turned into a tacky designer. Where is that man with the great forward thinking, the innovative and clever designs? I mean that neo-baroque thing it has to end, if it hasn’t yet. Obviously not for Marcel!
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