Guido Marsille (Boskoop, 1967) studied, from 1989 to 1994, architectural design at the AKI, Academy of Art and Industry in Enschede. After his graduation, he worked six years as a designer and project manager at West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in Rotterdam.
Before taking up his own practice, in the period 2000-2003 he joined several collaborations with visual artists, designers and architects, including landscape architect Erik Overdiep, Schie 2.0 / Jan Konings and Lucas Verweij.
He was active as a committee member 'art in public space’ for the Municipality of Almelo and he gave several lectures and workshops at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Universiteit Twente, Enschede and Alterra Wageningen University. Marsille was employed as a (guest) lecturer at the AKI, the Academy of Visual Arts Arnhem, department art in public space, and Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
In 2004 he started Buromarsille. Since then, the office worked on a variety of projects for both the indoor and outdoor public space. The commissions range from full interior design concepts to product development. The designs and products of Buromarsille received both national and international attention, and were displayed in various exhibitions, art centers and museums exhibited both solo and in groups.
The work was among more visible at CBK Rotterdam, Nijmegen ‘Umbrella Factory’, Woonbeurs RAI Amsterdam, Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam design, 100%design Rotterdam, Modefabriek Amsterdam, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Museum Am Ostwall Dortmund and Milan Salone di Mobile.
Recent projects been realized by Buromarsille are the shops ' R k n-str k sh n ' (Rotterdam, 2008 with Anneke A. de Boer), ‘One-Off-Office’, office, interior and furniture design (Rotterdam, 2008-2009), the interior of the store Prague, Antwerp 2009 and the interior of 's Zomersbloemen, Rotterdam 2009.
#Crate furniture are rule-based spatial elements.
In 2004 buromarsille developed a set of elemental rules that form the basic molecules of the #Crate series. The set of rules give the #Crate furniture a constant esthetic with a variable shape. Every new #Crate is an evolution of all the previous #Crates in accordance to new local conditions.
A #Crate never comes alone.
#Crate is all about giving structure to larger spaces, a physical structure and a social structure. A #Crate constellation is too large to be called furniture and too small to be called architecture. Because the development of the #Crate constellations is context driven there is no way to predict what the next iterations will look like.
Buromarsille is specialized in exploring the intersection of individual and public space. What at first seemed to be a thin line turned out to be a fascinating space with a lot of design potential. For the past five years this inspired Guido Marsille to develop furniture that gives back a little private or personal space in a otherwise impersonal public area.
Text by O.Scheffer.