Curious Collections by Mariëlle Leenders

Concept  | Design | Photography | Research

Mariëlle was born on 6 December 1974, where she grew up in a small village and played in the forest everyday. Since she was 18 years old, she has been travelling by herself to enjoy  and learn from nature and different cultures.

Curious Collections: fashion for walls that are there to be seen!
Concerning photo wallpaper the work of Dutch designer Mariëlle Leenders is unique. The curious combination of photography and design skills results in ‘photodesigns’.
 
Curious Collections, this is how the label as well as the design and photo studio of Mariëlle Leenders (1974) in Schijndel (Netherlands) is called. Since in 2000 she graduated with distinction at the international renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, this jack-of-all-trades is working as photographer and as concept & product designer. As specialist in photo design for many years, Mariëlle has grown to market leader and trendsetter in this field. On the basis of her own and thus unique photography Mariëlle creates photo designs: lifelike photos of high grade quality that are processed in such a way that they repeat infinitely in a realistic and natural way.
 
As a professional photographer Mariëlle Leenders makes all her photo’s personally in order to subsequently process these on the computer; tailor made, for any desired application. Her photo wallpaper is unique: the patterns continue endlessly and naturally in all directions, upwards, downwards, to the left or to the right.
 
The photo wallpapers of Curious Collections are divided into different series; many life size foliage and flower designs, but also tactile knittings and other textile structures, sturdy stone and wood designs, birds and insect, tasty sweets and crystal clear images and structures from nature.
 
Mariëlle’s photos always reflect her love for nature. She loves playing and experimenting with nature, natural materials, to make new compositions or surprising new imagery. And on the other hand she loves the coincidence and the pleasant surprises nature always have in store. She loves capturing these beautiful and meaningful events. This is the essence of her work.
From photo’s which are so detailed that can be enlargement to XXL photo-murals, to extremely detailed and sophisticated photo patterns, which can be repeated infinitely. Infinitely beautiful!

Although constantly developing exciting new collections of photos and designs, I also create collections on demand. And all my products can be custom-made. I provide a complete service from concept to final product, to product-photography and have the flexibility to cater to special requirements.

Mariëlle also works as an experience designer/ people researcher. She researches by means of film and photography which results in reliable and often surprising results. The camera can’t lie!
Mariëlle can assist you in translating this research in new innovative and sustainable products/ services. Due to privacy of the participants in these researches, this work cannot be shown on the website. For more info, please contact me.

For prices business as well as private photography, design and research, please contact me and I can make you a personal quote.

My complete CV, can be dowloaded.

 

All photography shown on this website is done by Mariëlle Leenders.

All rights reserved! All photography and work is are protected with copyright! Each unauthorized use of a Photographic Work is deemed to be an infringement of the Photographer’s copyright. On all legal relationships the General Terms and Conditions of the DuPho (Dutch Photographers) dated January 2016 apply. For more insight on the general terms, please contact info@marielleleenders.nl

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