Roche Bobois and Paradigm teamed up for Sensory Design, a special launch of Marcel Wanders’ Globe Trotter collection paired with work by artist Katherine Fraser for Design Week. Marcel Wanders’ unique and eclectic collection is inspired by the legendary adventurers and explorers who traveled the world to discover new cultures and rare objects. The collection expresses openness, freedom and inspiration, showcasing Marcel Wanders’ signature design style. A large illustrated fresco portrays a whimsical wonderland, inviting one to take a walk among all the familiar characters from our beloved childhood stories. Katherine Fraser’s memories of being an only child growing up in rural Maine loosely thread themselves through her paintings where solitary figures comfortably inhabit sparse landscapes. Her paintings have the visceral quality of dreams - through them, she explores the ideal that feelings of isolation and loneliness may be used as a vehicle connecting us to our truest nature. Her subjects live where the rest of the world drops away and we are left bare. They display an ‘inner necessity’ to remain slightly out of reach, an allowance for which Fraser beautifully frames them in private moments that visually capture the essence of found self-awareness. This visual vocabulary expresses a universal sense of connectivity, where the depth of observation can shift a viewer inward toward a personal claim of self-reflection.