Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson , CBE (born October 20, 1963 in Sydney ) is an award-winning Australian designer and entrepreneur.
Life
In 1984 Newson graduated from the Sydney College of the Arts with a major in jewelry and sculpture. Via Tokyo and Paris he made his way to London, where he has been based with a partner since 1997.
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Marc Newson is a creative designer at Qantas ; other well-known customers are Boucheron , Dom Pérignon , Leica and TASCHEN . He has also been working for G-Star since 2003 and for Apple since 2014 . He is co-founder of the watch company Ikepod . Newson sells his furniture through the influential gallery owner Larry Gagosian . In 2011 he received the Lucky Strike Designer Award .
Trivia
His work fetched top prices at auctions: Sotheby’s auctioned one of his three Lockheed lounge chairs for $ 968,000 in 2006; In 2009, Phillips de Pury & Company selected another copy of the aluminum loungers at £ 1,100,000.
In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year.
Exhibitions
- 2013/2014: Mike Newson: At Home. , Philadelphia Museum of Art .
Individual evidence
- ^ Marc Newson | Australian designer. Accessed January 31, 2020 (English).
- ↑ designbuild article
- ↑ A Milan Design Week Top 10: What to Do, Where to Go, and What to Wear - VOGUE, April 13, 2015
- ↑ G-Star ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stern: Apple brings designer Marc Newson into the team ( Memento from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lucky-insider article
- ↑ Business Week December 15, 2006
- ↑ Top 2009 Prices - Bloomberg, December 21, 2009
- ^ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on April 27, 2014.
Web links
- Website
- Design Museum: Marc Newson
- Marc Newson - Design Dictionary Entry in the design dictionary
- Product selection at the Powerhouse Museum , Sydney
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Newson, Marc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newson, Marc Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |