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Marcel Wanders

The design practitioner and their approach to the redesigning the mundane is Marcel Wanders. He is a Dutch designer and art director. He designs architectural, interior and industrial projects. He graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988 and his fame started with the iconic ‘Knotted Chair’. He is now a designer for the biggest European contemporary design manufacturers, Moooi. Wanders became world known for his work of the iconic ‘Knotted Chair’. Marcel Wanders dream was to make something soft and flat become rigid and three dimensional by means of a couple of technical inventions. In 1996 Wanders gained world wide attention for his iconic ‘Knotted Chair’, which is paired with high tech materials and with low tech production methods. In Wanders’ designs he usually mixes innovative materials and techniques with references to well known historical styles and archetypes. He does this so the users can easily connect to the pieces and enjoy them for a long time and in doing so create a sustainable surrounding. 
The ‘Knotted Chair’ estimates the distinction between craft and industry. It united conflicting aspects, methods and materials which surprise and innovate. By Wanders combining hand crafted tactile designs with the high tech industrial processes, his designs starts as an aramid braided cord around a carbon fibre core, this is then manipulated in the traditional technique of a delicate macrame handcraft to form the shape of the chair. He used a technique for making textiles using knotting rather than weaving, which also making it extremely durable and light. The carbon cord that Wanders used to make the chair over braided with aramid, is a strong and lightweight synthetic material, which is commonly used in the aerospace industry. The aramid is also a strong heat resistant synthetic fibre. Wanders had also created the chair by the slack threads being impregnated with epoxy and then hung in a frame to harden. This allowed gravity to accomplished its shape and define the final form of the seat. In the last stage of the making of the chair, the suspended chair is dried at a high temperature, approximately 176° F. At this point the form becomes rigid and sturdy enough to support a person in its airy. The knotted pattern also helps form a structure that is strong enough to support the weight of the person sitting on it. Besides technologically innovative, the chair is romantic, humane and decorative altogether. The chair invites to touch and try. Apart from all the modern technology Wanders managed to make something lovely and doltishness, which brings out its individuality and personal character. It is unlike anything the design world has seen during the 90s, which made it become an icon and a point of reference for design and the years to follow. The ‘Knotted Chair’ is also a modern miracle of transparency, a highlight of the international design world and sought after collectors items. Wanders produced the first prototype himself, however then Italian furniture brand Cappellini manufactured a limited run of 1000 pieces. It was designed for the collective of Droog Design, where the chair is a production of Droog’s collaboration with the faculty of aviation at Delft Technical University in the investigation of new materials and fabric techniques. The ‘Knotted Chair’ is listed in the permanent collections of a number of well known design museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New Your and the V&A museum in London. Marcel Wanders said “I wanted to make a production that doesn't look industrial, a design that shows that it is lovingly made especially for someone, with the same kind of aura as an old worn down wooden cupboard, knotting is a technique with which you can achieve this artisan atmosphere”- (Knotted chair by Marcel Wanders. (n.d.). Retrieved August 28, 2017, from http://www.droog.com/project/knotted-chair-marcel-wanders)

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