Marc Newson
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Marc Newson
(1963- )
Born in Sydney, Australia, Marc Newson emerged as one of that country's leading designers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Labelled by some critics as the ‘new Starck’ he has worked across a wide range of disciplines including furniture, interiors, lighting, domestic appliance, and transporation design, and has been commissioned by many major clients including Alessi, B&B Italia, Flos, Ford, Ideal Standard, Idée, Nike, Tefal, Shiseido, and Qantas. His work also features in many of the world's leading design collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Weilam Rhein, the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Design Museum, London, and the Powerhouse, Sydney.
Having travelled widely in Europe and Asia in his teens, Newson returned to Sydney, where he studied jewellery and fine arts at the Sydney College of the Arts, absorbing a wide range of overseas influences from design magazines as a stimulus for furniture design. Rather than any specialist design training, such sources provided major stimuli for his early design work. In 1984 he was awarded a grant by the Australian Crafts Council, culminating in an exhibition in Sydney two years later in which his organic, aluminium-surfaced Lockheed Lounge chaise longue featured prominently, catching the imagination of the international design press, where it was widely featured. Other furniture prototypes followed before he moved to Tokyo where he settled from 1987 to 1991 with design ideas such as the Embryo Chair (1988) and Wicker Chair (1990) being put into production by Idée, a company owned by a Japanese entrepreneur, Teruo Kurosaki. Newson's work was exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair and led to commissions from the Flos lighting and Cappellini furniture companies before moving on to Paris, where he set up a studio in 1991. It was during the 1990s that he designed a number of interiors including restaurants for Coast (1995) in London, Komed (1996) in Cologne, and a recording studio in Tokyo. Newson moved to London in 1997, establishing a new studio, Marc Newson Ltd., with the ambition of working on larger-scale projects. He developed an increasing number of products for mass production, working closely with Benjamin De Haan, a computer specialist who became his business partner. In addition to glassware for Iittala and furniture for Magis and B&B Italia, Newson worked on a small-scale 021C concept car for Ford (launched at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1999, and shown at the Detroit Motor Show in 2000), bicycles for the Danish Biomega company, aircraft interiors and seating for the Australian airline Qantas, and the Dessault Falcon 900B private jet. Other commissions have included relighting the Sydney Opera House for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and uniforms for the Australian Olympic Team to be worn in Athens in 2004. Newson's work has been exhibited in a number of major venues including retrospectives in the Powerhouse, Sydney, in 2001-2 and the Groninger Museum in Holland in 2004. Books devoted to Newson's work have been published by Alice Rawsthorne (1999) and Conway Lloyd Morgan (2003).
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Marc Newson
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 Marc Newson at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Gala Reception, June 2011 |
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| Born | October 20, 1963 [1] Sydney, Australia |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Industrial Designer |
| Known for | Lockheed Lounge chair |
| Spouse | Charlotte Stockdale |
| Children | 2 |
Marc Andrew Newson CBE (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.
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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.[2]
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.[3] He co-founded and owns the Ikepod watch company.[4]
He describes his 1988 Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style."[5] 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,[6] and £1,100,000 at a 2009 auction at Phillips de Pury & Company.[7] 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.[5]
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."[8]
Newson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to design.[9][10]
Works
Objects he has designed include:
Transportation
- The MN bicycles for Biomega in 1999
- Trek Art Bike for Lance Armstrong 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[11]
- 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)[12]
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[13][14] 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
- Pentax K-01 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (2012)
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.[15]
Books
Marc Newson. Design tra organicità e fantascienza by Cinzia Ferrara, Milano, Lupetti, 2005. ISBN 88-8391-127-X
Personal life
Newson was born in Sydney, Australia on 20 October 1963 to Paul Newson, an electrician and Carol. Carol was 19 years old when she was pregnant with Marc. She married Paul during the pregnancy, however Paul left the family soon after Marc was born. Carol moved back into her parent's house to raise Marc. Marc's father figure came in the form of his grandfather, Andrew Rolfe, and his uncle, Stephen. Newson is of Greek origins on his mother's side.[16] His grandfather, Andrew Wolfe, is a Greek immigrant, who came to Australia in 1923 as a 16-year-old.[1]
Newson married Charlotte Stockdale, a fashion stylist, in 2008[17] and has two children.[1]
One of Newson's best friends is Jonathan Ive of Apple Inc., whom he met in Japan.[1] In a 2012 New York Times article, Ive described Newson's work.
- I think Marc is fairly peerless now. Marc’s forms are often imitated, but what other designers seldom imitate is his preoccupation with materials and processes. You have to start with an understanding of the material. Often your innovation is just coming up with a new way to use material.
References
- ^ a b c d Brown, Chip (26 January 2012). "Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn’t Designed?". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/marc-newson.html. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ^ 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
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60009. p. 24. 31 December 2011.
- ^ New Year Honours 2012 The Daily Telegraph
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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
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