Madrid – Spain
Marre Moerel is an internationally acclaimed designer, who has worked for established companies such as Cappellini (IT), Celda (ES), Covo (IT), Offecct (SE), Ozone (JP) or WilsonArt Int. (USA). Her work has featured in many design exhibitions (V&A + Design Museum, London, Superstudio Pui, Milan, + NY, Milan, Tokyo and Stockholm Int. Furniture Design Fairs), and has been published extensively (Habitare, Interni, Blue Print, Elle Decor; Spoon, International Design Yearbook).
She studied furniture design at the Royal College of Art in London. From 1993 till 2002 she lived and worked as a freelance designer in New York, where she also taught at Parsons School of Design. Besides this, she organized and curated annual design exhibitions, both in the New York and Milan, to promote new and experimental work from up-and-coming designer from around the world (G7, hall 01’02’03). In 2003, to expand her horizons and in search for new inspiration, Moerel moved to Madrid where she’s established her own business.
A Brief history of time
This collection can seen as a continuation within history´s development of Commemorative Traditional Ceramics.
The pieces are produced in Limited Editions, with some Unique pieces.
They are made entirely of slibcast earthenware ceramics, and finished with metallic bronze, cobalt blue and gold glazes.
The original objects from which the molds were taken are children´s toys and Ikea dishes.
The pieces were conceived to celebrate the inherent dualities of life; man versus nature; war versus peace, craft versus mass-production etc. etc.
The idea came about as Moerel´s son brought home a free gift from McDonalds; a fighter plane included in a Happy Meal; a harmles toy, yet ultimately an object of violence, mass destruction, and mass consumption.
This innocent event resulted Moerel´s reflexion on our past and present state of affairs; times of war, peace, consumerism etc, and our glorification and condemnation thereof.
To Moerel, this series has become an illustration of mankinds inherent obsession with power, violence, possession -with which we get inundated daily, often as a light entertainment, by all forms of media, an which we continuously discuss over the dinner table-, and exemplifies how we pass our legacy on to our children.
