I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
So much in design is presented as a big miracle when it's just a repetition of what's been happening for 80 years. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue,… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few.… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
M.A.C. stands for makeup, art, and cosmetics. We're about bringing all these worlds together - makeup, design, fashion. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
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… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
The one thing we should address is how design can play a role in the psychological durability of objects, to think of… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I have a long list of how people call me: 'The Prince of Design,' 'Beethoven of Design,' 'the Dutch Prince of Design'… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
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… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
The need to express yourself in Los Angeles makes the city so vibrant. If I lived here, it would be lovely to be in… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
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. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
So much in design is presented as a big miracle when it's just a repetition of what's been happening for 80 years. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
