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Marc Newson Born 1963 (age 47–48)
Sydney, AustraliaNationality Australian Occupation Industrial Designer Known for Lockheed Lounge chair Spouse Charlotte Stockdale Children 2 Marc Newson (born 1963) was born in Sydney, Australia. Now based in London, he is a successful industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs. This style uses smooth flowing lines, translucency, transparency and tends to have an absence of sharp edges.
He is of Greek origins on his mother's side.[1] He married Charlotte Stockdale in 2008[2] and has two children.
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Career
In 1984 Newson graduated at the Sydney College of the Arts in jewellery and sculpture. In 1986 he was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council and staged a first exhibition featuring the Lockheed Lounge. The following year he moved to Tokyo, where he lived and worked until he moved to Paris in 1991 where he set up a studio.[3]
In 1997 he moved to London, where he and his partner Benjamin de Haan set up Marc Newson Ltd and still has a house in Paris. He is currently adjunct professor in design at Sydney College of the Arts (where he first studied sculpture and jewellery) and is the creative director for Qantas.[4] He co-founded and owns the Ikepod watch company.[5]
He describes his 1988 Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style."[6] In 2005, he was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the year.
His work has become amongst the highest selling in auctions. One of his three Lockheed Lounge chairs sold for $968,000 at Sotheby's in 2006,[7] and £1,100,000 at a 2009 auction at Phillips de Pury & Company.[8] At the 2006 Design Miami fair he produced 12 Chop Top tables, all of which sold out in 20 minutes at an estimated $170,000.[6]
Every year he races one of his four vintage sports cars - an Aston Martin, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and a Cisitalia, in the Italian Mille Miglia and was quoted as saying: "I'm not a motor head, I don't like the new versions of any of those cars."[9]
Works
Objects he has designed include:
Transportation
- The MN bicycles for Biomega in 1999
- Trek Art Bike for Lance Amstrong LiveStrong (2009)
- The Ford 021C Concept Car for the Ford Motor Company in 1999
- The Qantas first class lounges in Melbourne and Sydney
- The Qantas 'Skybed' business class seat and Airbus 380 Economy Class Seat, winner of the 2009 Australian International Design Award of the Year[10]
- Cabin design for the 'Sky Jet' (2007), an airline/rocketship (by EADS Astrium) planning to take passengers into space from 2012.
- Riva Aquariva speedboat (announced in 2010, limited edition of 22 units)[11]
Consumer goods
- Lockheed Lounge (designed in 1986 shortly after he graduated from school and one of the items that established Newson as a designer)
- Chop Top table
- New range for Smeg (appliances) in 2009-2010
- Furniture for Cappellini
- Ikepod watches
- A collection of fittings and a sink for Ideal Standard in 2003
- A Magnum Presentation Set for Dom Perignon in 2006[12][13] and 2010 Black Box
- The Dish Doctor for Magis in 1997
- The Scope series of bags for Samsonite
- The Atmos 561 and 566 Clocks for Jaeger LeCoultre
- Cookware for Tefal
- Items for Alessi
- Clothes for the clothing company G-Star Raw
- Timepieces for freelance companies
- Kelvin 40 concept plane as a personal project
Restaurants and events
Newson designed the Lever House Restaurant & Bar in New York in 2002 and the Canteen, also in New York, in 1999. In 2005 he designed the interiors of the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid.
He was selected as the artistic director for the 2011 Sydney New Year's Eve fire work display.[14]
Books
Marc Newson. Design tra organicità e fantascienza by Cinzia Ferrara, Milano, Lupetti, 2005. ISBN 888391127X
See also
References
- ^ Greenwood, Helen (2006-02-02). "Up there for thinking". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/horseracing/up-there-for-thinking/2006/02/02/1138836346794.html. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ^ Wallpaper
- ^ Design Boom 9 April 2003 Interview
- ^ Design Build Network 8 February 2011
- ^ Luxury Insider August 2010
- ^ a b Rawsthorn, Alice. "Smooth Move". The New York Times Magazine: pp. 50–57.
- ^ Business Week15 December 2006
- ^ Bloomberg 21 December 2009
- ^ The Sydney Magazine 4 August 2009
- ^ Design Awards
- ^ Leaf Review p. 52 No. 10 2011
- ^ Style and Spirits
- ^ Arthur, Jessica (June 19, 2008). "Style and Spirits". JCReport.com. http://jcreport.com/intelligence/trend/190608/style-and-spirits. Retrieved 2007-06-26.[dead link]
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald 1 March 2011
External links
- Marc Newson Ltd. homepage
- Design Museum: Marc Newson
- Marc Newson - Design Dictionary Illustrated article about Marc Newson (also containing a portrait photo of him)
- G-Star Raw's official website
- KDDI au: au design project > talby
- Ikepod Watch
- Various objects designed by Marc Newson from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum
Categories:- Australian designers
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Australian people of Greek descent
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