Marre Moerel

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.

 

Marre Moerel Design Studio, is set up as both Design Office and Store. From here she distributes her own line of ceramics - mainly lighting and tableware - and continues to work on commisions and self-initiated projects. In the Store limited-edition pieces are for sale, together with prototypes and one of a kind objects.

Presenting Food on the Table

Marre Moerel presents Food on the Table, a new collection of ceramic tableware consisting of jugs, plates, serving trays and other related objects.

 

The pieces of this complete collection are cast directly from animal organs, such as cow hearts, pig intestines, sheep brains, and bull testicles. The shape and function of each object was derived from it’s original, natural form, without further manipulation or ‘design’.

Through this process of immortalizing the animals interior, Moerel confronts us with the brutality and animal instincts which exist in all of us.

 

At the same time, she shows us the beauty inherent in the rawness of nature, which we continue to be disconnected from, and which we can only hope to rediscover.