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. — 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
