Designer Tag

"The whole lot you absorb in life by some means stays in your head," says Sabine Marcelis, an artist based in Rotterdam within the Netherlands. Marcelis can still remember the way in which sunlight struck the mountaintops and the moon would shine upon the ocean when she was growing up in Latest Zealand. It's no coincidence that her work today explores light interactions through installation, sculpture, and even product design: translucent pastel tables that appear to glow and white orb lighting fixtures for IKEA that recall the moon. "Have fun your individual uniqueness," says Marcelis, a lesson she has passed along to the five young artists that comprise the Women Bauhaus Collective, formed by skin-care brand La Prairie. "Because ultimately, that...