Wanders, Marcel

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch industrial designer.

Wanders trained in Arnhem, Maastricht, and Hasselt and eventually graduated cum laude from the art academy in Arnhem.

He made his breakthrough in 1996 with his Knotted Chair, a chair made of reinforced rope that he designed (in collaboration with Delft University of Technology) for Droog Design. This design has been included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. He also won the public award of the Rotterdam Design Prize in 1997 with this chair.
He is part-owner and art director of the design agency Moooi (formerly Wanders Wonders) in Amsterdam. He also has his own agency and designs for several Italian furniture brands.

Wanders was included in a list of 50 Stars of Europe by the American magazine Business Week in 2002. In 2005 he was editor of the Design Yearbook. He won an award for his Carbon chair in the Elle Decoration International Design Awards in 2005, and the following year he won the award for Designer of the Year in the Elle Decoration International Design Awards.

In addition to MoMa, Wanders' designs can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, among others.