WIEL ARETS / WIEL ARETS ARCHITECTS

Function-focused perfection: the designs of Dutch architect and designer, Wiel Arets, creator of ILBAGNOALESSI dOt for LAUFEN, exude both ingenuity and pragmatism.

The designs of Dutch architect and designer, Wiel Arets, exude both ingenuity and pragmatism. His most important works include the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastrict and the headquarters of the AZL pension fund in Heerlen. Wiel Arets was born in 1955 in Heerlen and studied for his diploma at Eindhoven University of Technology in 1983.  In 1984 he founded the office of Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in Heerlen, which then relocated to Maastricht in 1996. He taught at various academies and universities throughout the world, including in London, Vienna and New York, and currently holds the Berlage Chair at Delft University of Technology.

"ILBAGNOALESSI dOt" – a cooperative venture between Alessi, LAUFEN und Oras – is his first bathroom project. In creating this range Arets focused particularly on not allowing the individual objects to distract from the actual purpose of the bathroom – the cleansing of body and spirit.