Marc Sadler

BUDERUS

MARC SADLER was born in Austria, is a French citizen and is currently living in Milan. He graduated in 1968 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, after the first course of Industrial Design. In France this was already considered as a subject in itself, separated from architecture and identified under the name of Esthétique industrielle. Interested in experimenting with plastics, which was the theme of his dissertation, and curious by nature, in the early 1970s Sadler conceived the first ski boot in thermoplastic material, which was then industrialized by the Italian company Caber. The road was paved for a multiannual and successful collaboration with Caber (subsequently called Lotto) which led among other things to the patent of the boot with symmetrical shell, for many years the best selling in the world. This is the origin of his specialization in “sports design”, which has led him to work with all the most important sports multinational companies in the United States, Asia, Japan and Europe. This experience has given him the opportunity to accrue composite skills on materials and process technologies. His “origin” in the sports industry, where research and experimentation on new materials and manufacturing processes is more widespread, allowed him to export ideas to sectors where classic design has been rooted for longer. A stateless person in the widest sense of the word (he has lived and worked in France, United States, Asia and Italy), at the moment he is maybe only temporarily based in Milan and he continuously collaborates with important companies in the furniture, small and large household appliances, lighting industries, as well as on more technical products, plus being still strongly active in the sports industry with collaborations that have now lasted for more than twenty years. Among the awards he has received over the years, Frankfurt Design Plus for the Apotheos shower enclosure by Albatros (1995) for the Grammy kitchen scale by F.lli Guzzini (2001); ADI Golden Compass for the Drop lamps by Flos (1995), Tite and Mite lamps by Foscarini (2001) and for the Big bookcase by Caimi Brevetti (2008); Hannover Auszeichnung für Gutes Design for the Drop2 (1996) and Twiggy (2007) lamps; Créateur de l'Année, Paris (1997); Selection at the ADI Golden Compass for Twiggy (2008). His Motorcyclist’s Back Protector (designed for Dainese) is in the permanent design collection of New York MoMA and Mite by Foscarini is part of the design collection of Beaubourg in Paris. Marc Sadler is also an artist whose talent is recognised for being sensitive and emotionally concerned in drawing, painting and sculpture.