Quotes by Marcel Wanders - Page 2

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.
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Functionality
Inconsequential
Logic
Parameters
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Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.
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Making Decisions
Individual Person
Object
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The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.
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Discover
Resonates
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You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece - I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don't need to buy throwaway furniture.
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Flea Markets
Furniture
Second Hand
Flea
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When I had just finished my degree show, I wrote down the 10 companies that I most wanted to work with, and B&B Italia was on the top of the list.
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Most Wanted
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If we want a world that is truly sustainable, we have to realize that something old can also be perfect. Otherwise, we'll just throw away our yesterday.
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Yesterday
Sustainable
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A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.
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Crucial
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Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.
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Believe
Ideas
Philosophy
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There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.
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Exclude
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If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.
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New Products
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My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.
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Architecture
Mom And Dad
Mom Dad People
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I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.
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Designer
Life Love Trust
All My Life
Beautiful Way
Principle
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Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.
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Choices
Luxury
Life Your Own
Life Choices Your
Reflects
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Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.
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Amsterdam
Building
Century
Creative
Hub
Next
Breathes
Companies
Walk
Moment
Start-Up
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To transfer food into a bowl from a pan that you've just cooked in, it's a loss of energy; it's wasteful. People think it's very sophisticated, I don't think it's so smart.
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Loss
Sophisticated
Wasteful
Bowl
Cooked
Pan
Transfer
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Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but we designers didn't see it.
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Arrogant
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The need to express yourself in Los Angeles makes the city so vibrant. If I lived here, it would be lovely to be in a cool new high-rise looking out over a city that is exploding.
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Exploding
Express Yourself
Lovely
Vibrant
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I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.
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Cradle
Hometown
Container
Historically
Mothers
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The one thing we should address is how design can play a role in the psychological durability of objects, to think of how objects can be engineered in a way that they will be good over time.
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Psychological
Address
Time Good Design
Engineered
The One Thing
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When I was a student, my first luxury purchase was a drafting table. It may not seem like a major purchase, but for me, it was the most important thing I could think of to spend my money on.
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Drafting
Luxury
Money Me Important
Most Important Thing
Purchase
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Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.
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Convince
Sitting
Smarter
Opposite
Client
Copy
Product
Thief
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The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.
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Disposable
Dogma
Irrelevant
Modernism
Objects
Sick
Today
Tomorrow
Fundamental
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As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.
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Rationality
Indeed
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We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.
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Buying
Valuable
Object
Transports
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When I make chairs, they have legs; they can go anywhere in the world. Interiors are a different responsibility. A house is a representation of where you are, and it has to be right for the place.
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Chairs
Interiors
Legs
Representation
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A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.
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Design
Combination
Great Idea
Juxtaposition
Orchestration
Placement
Interior
Product
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In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others.
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Aggressive
Chair
Customer
Defensive
Object
Tech
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That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.
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Designers
Hardly
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Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost resources, but a true designer creates wares which will remain relevant forever.
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Aim
Designer
Meaningful
Objects
Relevant
Trends
Creates
Definition
Durable
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I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.
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Friendship
Design
Ambition
Dubai
Familiar
Hospitality
Scene
Area
Highly
Regarded
Visitor
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A good gift celebrates the relationship between the giver and the receiver. When you open that box, you feel like, 'Wow, you really understood me.' At the same time, you think this gift could come only from that person.
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Giver
Receiver
Understood
Wow
Time Good Relationship
Box
Same Time
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I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's important that when we work on something, we do it with positive intentions, because this energy will be sensed in the design.
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Intentions
Sensed
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Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted.
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Connections
Granted
Seen
Combinations
Establish
Take For Granted
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Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city I've been to. There is something for everyone here, especially when you dare to go off the beaten path.
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Amsterdam
Beaten
Beaten Path
Breeding
Creative
Dare
Ideas
Openness
Path
Tolerance
World City New
Area
Fueled
Ground
Unlike
Pursuits
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Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.
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Design
Irrelevant
Modernism
Tomorrow
Matters
Forward
Puts
Reflect
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Inspiration has become this word that people tend to talk about as something from the outside. The truth is that... it is inside, like a burning fire: it is the feeling of certainty that your life has a meaning and you'll do something important.
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Burning
Certainty
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Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the traditional way. But I am not naive. I know that we make my things, and that people want them. I am signing them - and I am winking at them.
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Educated
Signing
Winking
Maker
Traditional Way
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I'm not the type of person who feels bad about things before. I choose what to do at the moment, and I have a very good reason for it; otherwise, I don't do it. If later my feelings change, I should celebrate now by being more wise, not feel bad about before.
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Celebrate
Good Reason
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I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically permanent. Most people throw stuff away not because it's broken but because their relationship with that object is broken.
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Permanent
Object
Psychologically
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There is always a reason behind things that are made, and if there isn't, there will be one when they travel through the world. The objects of beauty are used to impress, seduce, overwhelm, make money, support identities, and show power or style, among other things.
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Impress
Identities
Overwhelm
Seduce
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Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.
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Frustrated
Love Work Design
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My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is a message that co-existence is indeed possible. Design creates an ideal world where different ideas live close to each other in perfect harmony.
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Design
Components
Different Ideas
Harmony
Ideal World
Ideas
Perfect
Agenda
Borrow
Close
Creates
Cultures
Ideal
Indeed
Object
Political Agenda
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I have 60 people working for me in my studio. That's luxury if you ask me. I just dream. Tell those people that I want a certain thing. Those people will then invest days, and sometimes months, in bringing that idea to life. What more could you ask for? That's luxury for me.
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Luxury
Life Me People
Bringing
Invest
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Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.
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Experience
Design
Dialogue
Emotional
Interpretation
Purpose
Unwritten
Time Experience Great
Time Great Design
Functional
Between
Same
Open
Itself
Connection
Created
Meaning
Responsive
Same Time
Specific
Value
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Humor has the tendency to be funny once. If I tell you a joke, we're going to have a big laugh. But the second time I tell the joke, it's going to be a bit strange, and the third time you're going to ask if there's something wrong with me. So I am very cautious with jokes, but there is a lightness in my work.
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Funny
Humor
Cautious
Lightness
Strange
Ask
Funny Time Work
Bit
Funny Work Time
Laugh
Second
Tendency
Third
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I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just put the loveable ideas out there. Ones that are imaginative but not very introspective. It is more rare for a designer to explore his or her disappointments and moments of disillusion and doubt.
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Designer
Disillusion
Imaginative
Introspective
Vulnerability
Rare
Disappointments
Explore
Expressing
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I have a long list of how people call me: 'The Prince of Design,' 'Beethoven of Design,' 'the Dutch Prince of Design' and the list goes on and on and on... and also the 'Lady Gaga of Design!' I am fine with it. I think she is an amazing character who has innovated the music scene and is respected by so many people; she is surprising.
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Dutch
Gaga
Surprising
Beethoven
Lady
Lady Gaga
Long List
Music Scene
So Many People
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