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Craft is nothing, it seems, without the humanity that underpins it. Marcel Wanders is one half of groundbreaking Amsterdam based design house Moooi, and a multidisciplinary industrial designer, architect and interior designer in his own right. For him, craft takes many forms. His Rainbow Necklace, something he wears every day, was painstakingly created several years ago using kaleidoscopic beads collected from across the globe in an intensely personal project, in an edition of one, it is comprised of 35 individual beads, each reflecting a singular aspect of his own experience. There’s Murano glass and Bizazza mosaic from Italy and blue and white “one minute” clay Delft ceramics from his native Netherlands that he made with is daughter Joy. There is everything from the sacred - like the red and white fertility beads from Africa - to the mundane, in miniature golf balls and the humorous – including a gallstone and a Viagra pill. For Wanders, who has collaborated with global mega brands, imagineered new hotels and restaurants, the necklace is a personal talisman, and one without which he never travels anywhere.