Functional Quotes by Marcel Wanders

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

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

— Marcel Wanders

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

— Marcel Wanders

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

— Marcel Wanders

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

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

— Marcel Wanders

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

— Marcel Wanders

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

In my studio, I forbid people to work if they have a down day.

— Marcel Wanders

I like transparency. I love to have views throughout the house.

— Marcel Wanders

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

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

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

— Marcel Wanders

I'm not a person who regrets - it doesn't make me smarter to regret something.

— Marcel Wanders

There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers.

— Marcel Wanders