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Sabine Marcelis
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."
Marcelis was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands. She emigrated to Waihi, New Zealand, with her family at the age of 10. She studied industrial design at Victoria University of Wellington before returning to Holland in her early twenties to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Before pursuing a career in design, Marcelis competed in semi-professional snowboarding.
After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2011, she founded Studio Sabine Marcelis in Rotterdam, where she lives and works. Her studio has collaborated with companies such as Apple, Audi, Bulgari, Céline, IKEA, Fendi, Isabel Marant, Stella McCartney, and Renault.
Marcelis has designed furniture, lighting, packaging, and accessories for brands such as Acerbis Design, Arco, BD Barcelona, Calico Wallpaper, cc-tapis, Established & Sons, La Prairie, Mathmos, Natuzzi, and the Swedish furniture brand Hem.
She collaborated with IKEA on a collection of lamps and homewares which were commercialised in 2023.
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. A powder coated aluminium version of the piece was released in 2025.
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 which has featured artists and architects such as Ai Weiwei, Enric MIralles, and Ryue Nishizawa. 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".
She produced a temporary installation titled "Swivel" in St Giles Square in London for the 2022 London Design Festival.
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Sabine Marcelis
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."
Marcelis was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands. She emigrated to Waihi, New Zealand, with her family at the age of 10. She studied industrial design at Victoria University of Wellington before returning to Holland in her early twenties to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Before pursuing a career in design, Marcelis competed in semi-professional snowboarding.
After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2011, she founded Studio Sabine Marcelis in Rotterdam, where she lives and works. Her studio has collaborated with companies such as Apple, Audi, Bulgari, Céline, IKEA, Fendi, Isabel Marant, Stella McCartney, and Renault.
Marcelis has designed furniture, lighting, packaging, and accessories for brands such as Acerbis Design, Arco, BD Barcelona, Calico Wallpaper, cc-tapis, Established & Sons, La Prairie, Mathmos, Natuzzi, and the Swedish furniture brand Hem.
She collaborated with IKEA on a collection of lamps and homewares which were commercialised in 2023.
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. A powder coated aluminium version of the piece was released in 2025.
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 which has featured artists and architects such as Ai Weiwei, Enric MIralles, and Ryue Nishizawa. 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".
She produced a temporary installation titled "Swivel" in St Giles Square in London for the 2022 London Design Festival.