Marc Newson Lockheed Lounge Chair
Photo thanks to Luxist
Luxist, Core 77 and Trendhunter mention this lounge chair to be auctioned at Christie’s for an expected amount of US $ 2,4 mio.
Marc Newson, UK’s Royal Designer for Industry, designed it.
One reader at Luxist comments:
This chair was made famous by Madonna in her 1993 video for the song Rain. A fantastic video that certainly stands up to today’s standards. It was soon after this I saved up to buy my first watch as a kid from ikepod, also designed by the fabulous Marc Newson.
Design Matcher gives the following explanation:
After his graduation in 1984 he staged an exhibition and featured this aluminium chaise longue, the Lockheed Lounge – at the Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney. The sensual, curvaceous shape of the Lockheed Lounge is based on Newson’s vision of a “fluid metallic form, like a giant blob of mercury,” which has become the keystone of his design vocabulary. Named after the American aircraft manufacturer, the chair’s body is covered with nonoverlapping aluminum sheets joined with blind rivets, giving the impression on an airplane body.
Added Seprember 15, 2007:
Looking further into the Christie’s site I see that this lounge chair is for sale at the London Kingstreet auction of Oktober 14, 2007.
Marc Newson Lockheed Lounge Chair
Photo thanks to Christie’s
I show two pictures as the Christie’s photo seems a better picture of the chair actually on sale.
Christie’s Lotfinder:
Marc Newson (b. 1963)
Lockheed Lounge LC-1
impressed ‘Basecraft Sydney’
aluminium sheets, blind rivets, fibreglass
34½ x 24 x 64½in. (87.5 x 61 x 164cm.)
Designed in 1985, this work is number seven from an edition of ten.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in February 1993.
Finally:
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Update
The final bid was a bit at the low side of the estimate: UK Pnd 748,500.-