“Furniture was only a limited part of my work the last 25 years”
Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
“Furniture was only a limited part of my work the last 25 years”
Designed: 2003 (new version 2009)Nimrod Leather Cushions Glossy Chair
Origin: Italy
Low chair.
Frame in polyethylene painted glossy.
Seat and back upholstered in leather.
Size: H 80.5 cm, W 62 cm, L 86 cm, Seat height 40 cm.
£2,160.00
Via
Marc Newson designed the Micarta in 2007 for Gagosian Gallery in New York. New for me is he seemed to think wood.
I also found a Marc Newson Tumblr Dot Com account for what it is worth.
Orgone Stretch Lounge (1993) by Marc Newson on auction May 14, 2010 with a whopping Estimate of $400,000-$600,000:
Polished aluminum, enameled aluminum. 24 3/8 x 70 1/2 x 32 5/8 in. (61.9 x 179.1 x 82.9 cm). Produced by POD Edition, UK. Artist’s proof number one of two for the edition of six. Underside impressed with Pod logo and “MARC NEWSON/POD EDITION/AP 1.†This is the only example produced with black interior.
PROVENANCE The Gallery Mourmans, The Netherlands; Private Collection
LITERATURE Phil Starling, “An Australian in Paris,†Blueprint, February 1994, front cover and p. 29; Volker Albus and Volker Fischer, 13 Nach Memphis: Design Zwichen Askese und Sinnlichkeit, Munich, 1995, p. 127; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, p. 172; Alice Rawsthorn, “Marc Newson,†I.D. Magazine, January/February 1996, p. 70; Alice Rawsthorn, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 90-93; Museu do Design: Luxo, Pop, Cool, De 1937 Até Hoje, exh. cat., Museu do Design, Lisbon, 1999, fig. 224; Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2002, pp. 144-145; Louise Neri, ed., Marc Newson, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2007, p. 64