A new design talent emerged as Marcel Wanders celebrated in silver
In 2001, Marcel Wanders arrived on the international stage and it realised the Dutch
word for beautiful (Mooi) could be spelt with three ooos.
A quarter of a century later Moooi and Kilian Vos combined for her international
debut and first launch with a design brand.
Future Fossils imagines a world where digital life leaves behind its own archaeology. Crafted entirely through generative CGI, the collection transforms algorithms into artifacts: fragments of imagined geology, synthetic stones shaped not by centuries,
but by creative code. These are not relics of what has been, but of what might come.
Each piece is a paradox: artificial yet organic, familiar yet otherworldly – imagined
shapes and patterns formed by machines, yet steeped in a strangely natural language. Layers of texture evoke mineral veins, crystalline fractures and organic flow.
For Moooi, a brand that thrives between the real and the fantastical, Future Fossils embraces a new kind of archaeology – an exploration of a future not yet experienced.
Born in 1997, Vos is a 3D artist and designer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores
the interplay between the digital and physical, creating virtual environments that feel
real and objects that move fluidly between both worlds.
Through a mix of CGI and physical fabrication, she builds sculptural forms and
imagined spaces that question what is tangible, and what is simulated. Her work often blurs perception – making the digital feel material, and the material feel surreal.
Through her work, she looks at how ‘the digital’ can create new ways of experiencing
and relating to the objects and spaces surrounding us.
Vos sees great potential in the dialogue between CGI and product design. The digital realm has opened up endless possibilities for artistic expression, and as this landscape continues to diversify and evolve, she sees a future where the boundaries between the virtual and real worlds blur even further.
The launch, at Superstudio Piu, was part of a major milestone for Moooi, as it marked
a quarter of a century since founder Wanders announced himself to the world at the same venue.
Since then it has never told designers what to do, but listens to what they want to
make, and realises their dreams while remaining always eclectic and on the edge of commercial reality and cultural interest.
Moooi Carpets’ only launch at Milan Design Week, Future Fossils is available in five colours, three qualities – low pile, wool and soft yarn – and differing sizes: Chalk 280cm
x 255cm, Slate 260cm x 250cm, Iron 280cm x 255cm, Ochre 260cm x 262cm and
Olivine 260cm x 265cm.
