Marcel Wanders x Magis

Chairs built around contrast and personality

Within Chairs and Easy chairs, Marcel Wanders explores the chair as a meeting point between different materials and visual languages. The Troy Wireframe chair combines the graphic precision of its steel structure with a clean, practical seat, creating a versatile solution for contemporary dining environments. Its light profile makes it particularly easy to place around a table without visually crowding the room. When considering Magis chairs or modern dining chairs, this balance matters: the most successful choice should relate naturally to the dimensions of the table, leave comfortable circulation and contribute to the overall character of the interior.

Cyborg: a contemporary armchair with a hybrid identity

The Cyborg Stick armchair takes material contrast in another direction, bringing transparent or contemporary plastic elements together with the warmth and tactile quality of ash. The result feels both technological and familiar, giving the armchair a recognizable identity from every angle. Among designer armchairs and contemporary dining chairs, Cyborg stands out for the way different components coexist rather than trying to look like a single material. It can work around a dining table, as an occasional chair or in a more individual position within the room. Combined with selected pieces from Magis tables and low tables, it can create a dining setting based on deliberate contrasts rather than a perfectly matched furniture suite.

Flexible seating beyond the traditional dining chair

The collaboration also extends into Stools and Benches, allowing the same expressive approach to enter kitchens, counters and informal gathering areas. Magis design stools can provide an alternative to conventional dining seating, particularly around islands and higher work surfaces where flexibility is important. When choosing among designer bar stools or modern kitchen stools, correct seat height should be one of the first considerations: enough clearance between the seat and counter makes a significant difference in everyday comfort. A mix of stools and chairs can also help distinguish different functions within an open-plan interior. The wider Magis Stools selection offers further possibilities for creating these less formal seating arrangements.

Tubby brings sculptural design into the garden

Marcel Wanders' work for Magis is not confined to seating. The Tubby polyethylene plant pot/pot holder introduces a generous sculptural form to terraces, gardens and other open-air environments, showing how a functional container can become part of the spatial composition. Rather than treating Magis outdoor vases simply as accessories, they can be used to establish rhythm, frame an entrance or create areas of greenery around outdoor furniture. Large planters are especially effective where architecture needs to be softened by vegetation, while grouped containers can give smaller terraces a more layered character.

Connecting furniture, objects and outdoor spaces

Choosing designer outdoor vases or modern garden planters involves more than selecting a shape. The proportions of the plant, container and surrounding space should work together, particularly when a planter is positioned close to seating or circulation routes. Tubby can act as a visual bridge between architecture and greenery, while Troy and Cyborg show how the same collaboration can shape the spaces where people sit and gather. Used alongside outdoor pieces from Magis Chairs & Small Armchairs or selected Magis home accessories, these designs can contribute to an environment that feels varied and personal. Across the collection, Marcel Wanders for Magis demonstrates how function can remain immediately understandable while material, silhouette and detail give even familiar objects an unexpected identity.