Sabine Marcelis Explained

Sabine Marcelis
Birth Place:Alkmaar, Netherlands
Alma Mater:Design Academy Eindhoven

Sabine Marcelis (born 1985) is a Dutch artist and designer. Typically focused on themes of transparency, reflection, opacity and translucency, often using pastel colours, minimalist shapes, smooth surfaces, and materials such as resin, glass, and stone, she has described her work as “an investigation of light, how it can create effects and atmospheres."[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Early life and education

Marcelis was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands. She emigrated to Waihi, New Zealand, with her family at the age of 10.[6] She studied industrial design at Victoria University of Wellington before returning to Holland in her early twenties to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven.[7] [8] [9] Before pursuing a career in design, Marcelis competed in semi-professional snowboarding.[10] [11]

Work and career

After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2011, she founded Studio Sabine Marcelis in Rotterdam. Her studio has consulted for companies such as Audi, Céline, IKEA, Isabel Marant, Stella McCartney, and Renault.[12] [13] [14] [15]

Design

Marcelis has designed furniture, lighting, packaging, and accessories for brands such as Arco, Calico Wallpaper, cc-tapis, Established & Sons,, Mathmos, Natuzzi, and the Swedish furniture brand Hem.[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

She collaborated with IKEA on a collection of lamps and homewares which were commercialised in 2023.[25] [26]

In 2024, the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam commissioned Marcelis to design a new piece. The result is an industrially manufactured stacking chair made of aluminium called the Stedelijk Chair.[27] [28]

Installations

In 2019, Marcelis was invited by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation to participate in its Interventions programme, a series of temporary installations in the Barcelona Pavilion.[29] Her contribution was a group of pieces titled "No Fear of Glass" (a play on Josep Quetglas Riusech's 2001 book about the building "Fear of Glass").[30] [31] [32]

She produced a temporary installation titled "Swivel" in St Giles Square in London for the 2022 London Design Festival.[33] [34]

In 2022, the Vitra Design Museum staged "Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" in which she reorganised the approximately 400 pieces held in the exhibition warehouse collection by colour.[35] [36]

In 2024, the High Museum of Art added Marcelis's Panorama to a decade-long series of monumental outdoor art installations. The kinetic work, a composition of four large, rotating red and orange mirrored glass columns, "traverses the boundary between art and design". According to the museum, it is "the designer’s first monumental and kinetic work". Other artists who have contributed to the series, which is staged on the Woodruff Arts Center’s Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, include Tanya Aguiñiga, Ignacio Cadena, Héctor Esrawe, Jaime Hayon, Bryony Roberts, and Yuri Suzuki.[37] [38] [39] Also in 2024, she designed Stacked, an abstract sculptural water fountain for Amsterdam's Vondelpark.[40] [41]

Exhibitions and collections

Collections holding examples of Marcelis's work include the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam,[42] Design Museum Gent,[43] Centraal Museum in Utrecht,[44] and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam[45] (in the Netherlands); the Vitra Design Museum in Germany;[46] [47] and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).[48]

Her work has been exhibited at galleries such as Etage Projects in Copenhagen, Gallery Collectional in Dubai, Side Gallery in Barcelona, Carwan Gallery in Greece, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert in Australia, and Design Miami.[49] [50] [51] [52] [53] In 2023 she designed a unique "art version" of the Renault Twingo. It was shown at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.[54] [55]

In 2024 her collaboration with traditional Japanese lacquerware artisans Kawatsura Shikki was included in a Tokyo exhibition at Kudan House called Craft x Tech Tohoku Project.[56] [57] [58] [59] The work, a series titled Yōkan, includes three pieces – two tables and a wall mounted abstract piece, all made using traditional Urushi lacquer on hand-crafted wood.[60] [61] The show was curated by Maria Cristina Didero and also included works by Studio Swine, Ini Archibong, Yoichi Ochiai, Hideki Yoshimoto, and Michael Young.[62] [63] [64] The work was subsequently exhibited at the Victoria and Albert museum in London during the London Design Festival.[65] [66] [67]

Teaching

She is a mentor for both the Women Bauhaus Collective and the Lexus Design Award, and also teaches at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL).[68] [69] [70] [71] [72]

Personal life

She currently lives and works in Rotterdam.[73] Her partner is the architect Paul Cournet.[74] [75] They have a son who was born during the Covid pandemic. Marcelis observed that her piece called "Boa", a torus shaped pouf, is “helping him learn how to walk. And it’s also a perfect spot to safely place him if I have to quickly leave the room.”[76]

Inspiration

At the age of 16, Marcelis was an avid snowboarder.[77] In an interview with Surface magazine, she states that her use of snowboarding goggles made her realize the powerful effect colour has on one's environment.[78] This helped her develop her work titled "Colour Rush" which was released in May 2022 at the Vitra Design Museum.

Specifically, Marcelis also stated that her inspiration stems from the architect Hans Hollein for his works with not only architecture but also his work with jewelry.

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SABINE MARCELIS . 24 October 2022 . Elle Deco International Design Awards . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 31 October 2024 . London Design Festival.
  3. Web site: Burrichter . Felix . Felix Burrichter . 2022 . Sabine Marcelis on Deadlines, the Colours Above the Clouds and Leaving it Up To Interpretation . 23 October 2022 . . 32.
  4. Web site: Sabine Marcelis, Dutch, b. 1985 . 19 February 2023 . Artsy.
  5. Web site: Burgos . Matthew . 2023-04-17 . OMA and solidnature cast a wondrous portal into the natural formation of stones and dreams . 2023-04-17 . designboom.
  6. Web site: At home with Sabine Marcelis . 24 October 2022 . Architecture Now . en-AU.
  7. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 24 October 2022 . Established & Sons . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Ribbens . Gijsje . 8 July 2016 . Meet the Dutch Furniture Designer Loved by Céline and Isabel Marant . 23 October 2022 . Vogue . en-US.
  9. Web site: Martin . Hannah . 23 March 2018 . Why Students from This Dutch School Are the Future of Design . 19 February 2023 . Architectural Digest . en-US.
  10. Web site: Pratyush . Sarup . 11 May 2022 . What Makes Superstar Dutch Designer Sabine Marcelis Tick . 23 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221023173118/https://www.admiddleeast.com/art-design/design/what-makes-superstar-dutch-designer-sabine-marcelis-tick. 23 October 2022. Architectural Digest Middle East.
  11. Web site: Todd . Stephen . 6 June 2022 . When a snowboarding career didn't pan out, this designer saw the light . 31 October 2024 . . en.
  12. Web site: IKEA Sabine Marcelis VARMBLIXT collection . 23 October 2022 . IKEA . en.
  13. News: Khemsurov . Monica . 1 February 2016 . A Dutch Designer Makes Her Name in Lights . 23 October 2022 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  14. Web site: Das neue elektrische Showcar Twingo Sabine Marcelis – Renault . 2024-09-19 . de.renault.ch . de.
  15. Web site: Sabine Marcelis and Less is More, the interview Salone del Mobile . 2024-09-27 . www.salonemilano.it . en.
  16. Web site: Natuzzi – Sabine Marcelis . 25 February 2023 . Natuzzi . en-AU.
  17. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 25 February 2023 . Established & Sons . en-GB.
  18. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 25 February 2023 . cc-tapis . en-US.
  19. Web site: Designer Sabine Marcelis table for Arco . 25 February 2023 . www.arco.nl.
  20. Web site: Jen . Virginia . 28 April 2022 . Inside star designer Sabine Marcelis's vibrant Rotterdam loft . Vogue Living Australia.
  21. Web site: Designer: Sabine Marcelis . 25 February 2023 . Hem . en.
  22. Web site: 2023-09-08 . La Prairie's Cult Cream Relaunches with Help from Designer Sabine Marcelis . 2024-02-29 . ELLE Decor . en-US.
  23. Web site: Rising, Dancing, Twisting . 2024-07-04 . Disegno Journal . en-GB.
  24. Web site: Retro icon: Sixty years of the lava lamp are celebrated with one-of-a-kind designs. . 2024-10-31 . Design Indaba.
  25. Web site: Miura . Sophie . 9 June 2022 . An exclusive first look at Sabine Marcelis' IKEA collaboration . 23 October 2022 . Vogue Living Australia.
  26. Web site: Reith . Anna-Lena . 28 January 2023 . IKEA X Sabine Marcelis, è in arrivo la nuova collezione . 17 February 2023 . Architectural Digest Italia . it-IT.
  27. Web site: Stedelijk Chair by Sabine Marcelis . 2024-06-19 . . en.
  28. Web site: Lei . Leo . 2024-04-25 . Sabine Marcelis Shifts From Color to Monochrome With Stedelijk . 2024-06-19 . Design Milk . en.
  29. Web site: Sabine Marcelis. No Fear of Glass – Fundació Mies van der Rohe . 17 February 2023 . miesbcn.com.
  30. Web site: Thompson . Henrietta . 20 December 2019 . Sabine Marcelis' seamless intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion . 17 February 2023 . Wallpaper.
  31. Web site: Martin . Hannah . 19 December 2019 . Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion Gets Redecorated by Another Designer . 17 February 2023 . Architectural Digest . en-US.
  32. Web site: Hill . John . No Fear of Glass – . 17 February 2023 . World-Architects . en.
  33. Web site: 19 September 2022 . Swivel by Sabine Marcelis is a rotating chair installation in London . 23 October 2022 . Dezeen . en.
  34. Web site: London Design Festival — Swivel . 2023-05-13 . www.londondesignfestival.com.
  35. Web site: Vitra Schaudepot . 17 February 2023 . www.design-museum.de .
  36. Web site: Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis . 17 February 2023 . www.design-museum.de .
  37. Web site: Panorama . 2024-08-31 . . en-US.
  38. Web site: Sirlin . Deanna . 1 August 2024 . An artist’s experiments with light: 'Panorama' at the Woodruff . 31 August 2024 . ArtsATL.
  39. Web site: 2024-07-30 . Sabine Marcelis creates rotating installation for High Museum of Art . 2024-08-31 . Dezeen . en.
  40. Web site: Zeitoun . Lea . 2024-09-06 . sabine marcelis upcycles stone slabs into towering fountain at amsterdam's vondelpark . 2024-09-15 . designboom architecture & design magazine . en.
  41. Web site: Wildt . Lois van der . 2024-08-22 . Open to Public Vondel Fountain, Stacked: A monumental installation by Sabine Marcelis and SolidNature . 2024-09-15 . Amsterdam Fashion Week . en-US.
  42. Web site: 2023-04-02 . When Things Are Beings – Voorstellen voor de museumcollectie . 2024-06-19 . Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam . nl.
  43. Web site: Seeing Glass – Big Round Mirror (Aubergine) – Sabine Marcelis & Brit van Nerven . 2024-06-19 . Design Museum Gent . en.
  44. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 2024-06-19 . Sabine Marcelis - Centraal Museum Utrecht . nl.
  45. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 18 February 2023 . Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen . en.
  46. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 2024-10-14 . Vitra Design Museum.
  47. Web site: 8 October 2021 . A Candy-Colored Addition to the Vitra Design Museum, and Other News . 24 October 2022 . SURFACE . en-US.
  48. Web site: Artist, Sabine Marcelis . 19 February 2023 . www.ngv.vic.gov.au.
  49. Web site: Sabine Marcelis . 19 February 2023 . Etage . en-US.
  50. Web site: OpenSpace . 6 May 2022 . Sabine Marcelis' Mirage at Gallery Collectional . 19 February 2023 . Open Space . en-US.
  51. Web site: 1 September 2020 . Sabine Marcelis Side Gallery . 19 February 2023 . Side Gallery . en.
  52. Web site: CARWAN GALLERY – . 19 February 2023 . carwangallery.com.
  53. Web site: Sabine Marcelis – Works . 19 February 2023 . GALLERY SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT . en.
  54. Web site: Sabine Marcelis has just created the most beautiful Twingo ever . 2023-07-01 . www.domusweb.it . en-gb.
  55. Web site: Hordijk . Arjan . 2023-06-30 . Renault Twingo krijgt Nederlands tintje . 2024-01-19 . Dagelijksauto.nl . nl-NL.
  56. Web site: Yamada . Mio . 2024-05-18 . A new initiative rethinks old Tohoku crafts . 2024-05-27 . The Japan Times . en.
  57. Web site: Akkam . Alia . 2024-05-20 . Tohoku Project presents inaugural Craft x Tech exhibition . 2024-05-27 . Architectural Digest . en-US.
  58. Web site: Craft x Tech Special Lecture Series Vol. 1 "Sabine Marcelis x Kawatsura Shikki" . 2024-06-07 . CRAFT X TECH . en.
  59. Web site: 2024-06-13 . 東北の伝統工芸×テクノロジーを世界へ。クラフトテックがいよいよ始動！ . 2024-10-08 . ELLE . ja-JP.
  60. Web site: Sabine Marcelis, Yōkan, 2024 . 2024-06-19 . Design Miami . en.
  61. Web site: Showcasing Collaborations between Traditional Japanese Crafts and Global Creatives, “Craft × Tech Tohoku Project” Exhibition from November 27 . 2024-11-28 . INTERSECT BY LEXUS – TOKYO . en.
  62. Web site: Demetriou . Danielle . 2 June 2024 . Craft x Tech elevates Japanese craftsmanship with progressive technology . 31 October 2024 . Wallpaper.
  63. Web site: Craft x Tech Tohoku Project 2024 Exhibition . 2024-06-06 . ArtFacts . en.
  64. Web site: CRAFT X TECH – An initiative to unify traditional Japanese craft and contemporary technology. . 2024-06-02 . CRAFT X TECH . en.
  65. Web site: Craft x Tech Tohoku Project, Prince Consort Gallery, V&A South Kensington . 2024-09-15 . Victoria and Albert Museum.
  66. Web site: London Design Festival — Craft x Tech . 2024-09-15 . londondesignfestival.com . en.
  67. Web site: 2024-09-05 . CRAFT x TECH. El poder transformador de la colaboración entre artesanía y diseño contemporáneo. . 2024-09-15 . DXI magazine . es-ES.
  68. Web site: Cleary . Mary . 2 September 2022 . A new collective revitalises the legacy of female Bauhaus artists . 25 February 2023 . Wallpaper.
  69. Web site: 2021-09-23 . Lexus Announces Mentors for Lexus Design Award 2022 . 2023-05-01 . Lexus Media Site . en-GB.
  70. Web site: Designer Sabine Marcelis on Her Career, Creative Mentorship, & More – Coveteur: Inside Closets, Fashion, Beauty, Health, and Travel . 25 February 2023 . coveteur.com . en.
  71. Web site: Sabine Marcelis, ECAL . 25 February 2023 . École cantonale d'art de Lausanne.
  72. Web site: Cleary . Mary . 2021-01-18 . La Prairie collaborates with ECAL students for design initiative . 2024-09-21 . . en.
  73. News: Kemp-Habib . Alice . Interiors: inside the minimalist home of designer Sabine Marcelis . en . The Times . 24 October 2022 . 0140-0460.
  74. Web site: Paul Cournet Semi Permanent . 19 February 2023 . semipermanent.com . en.
  75. Web site: Sabine Marcelis and Paul Cournet's Artful Loft Brings Glamour to Rotterdam's Coolhaven . 19 February 2023 . Interior Design . en-US.
  76. Web site: Martin . Hannah . 2021-04-23 . Sabine Marcelis and Hem Join Forces on This Delicious New Design . 2023-04-22 . Architectural Digest . en-US.
  77. Fall 2019 . Studio Sabine Marcelis . Interior Design . 90 . 11 . 15 . EBSCOhost.
  78. Web site: 2022-05-16 . What If Design History Was Rearranged by Color? . 2023-03-30 . SURFACE . en-US.
  79. News: 7 October 2019 . Sabine Marcelis Is GQ's Breakthrough Artist . 24 October 2022 . GQ Middle East.
  80. Web site: Burman . Sujata . 24 April 2019 . Philippe Starck, Virgil Abloh and Sabine Marcelis among winners of Designboom's Design Prize . 25 February 2023 . . en.
  81. Web site: Messina . Rab . 9 January 2020 . Sabine Marcelis wins Wallpaper* Designer of the Year 2020 . 24 October 2022 . Wallpaper.
  82. Web site: 2023-04-19 . Meet the Winners of the 2023 ELLE Decor International Design Awards . 2023-04-24 . ELLE Decor . en-US.
  83. Web site: The Monocle Minute – Design Awards special . 2023-04-29 . . en.
  84. Web site: Smee . Jessica . 26 November 2024 . Dezeen Awards 2024 Designers of the Year winners announced . 28 November 2024 . Dezeen.

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