Sabine Marcelis judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Sabine Marcelis judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
The Rotterdam-based former Wallpaper Designer of the year unveils her upcoming projects in the Netherlands and China, and discusses her picks from this year’s Wallpaper Design Awards
Sabine Marcelis, last year’s Wallpaper Designer of the Year, photographed in her Rotterdam home via Zoom.
Photography: Larry Fink
Despite the challenges faced by the creative industries and beyond, 2020 turned out to be an incredible year for Sabine Marcelis, and 2021 is shaping up to be even grander. ‘At the beginning it was a little bit scary, it felt like projects were disappearing one by one,’ she notes. But things were quick to look up. The Rotterdam-based designer is unveiling two major projects, which follow a series of collaborations presented throughout 2020: residential interventions featuring her signature candy coloured resin elements (which allowed her to explore the use
How India’s push to modernise threatens its signature buildings
This story is from January 3, 2021
How India’s push to modernise threatens its signature buildings
The IIM Ahmedabad complex designed by Kahn
You say to brick, “What do you want, brick?” Brick says to you, “I like an arch.” If you say to brick, “Arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel over an opening. What do you think of that, brick?” Brick says: “I like an arch.” Louis Kahn
This odd imaginary conversation with a brick was often used by American architect Louis Kahn to explain to students how they must use material around them to find inspiration. So the irony was not lost on anyone when Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) director Errol D’Souza proposed the destruction of the Kahn-designed campus by describing the bricks as “second class” and having an “inbuilt efflorescence” (salt deposit on masonry).