Marc Newson

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Marc Newson (1963-) was born in Sydney, Australia. 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 the absence of sharp edges to create a beautiful and ergonomic design. He describes his 1988 Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style."^[1]

He is of Greek origins on his mother's side.^[2] He has lived in London since 1997 and has a house in Paris.

In 2005, he was selected as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of the year.

In 2007, he completed the cabin design for the 'Sky Jet', an airline/rocketship (by EADS Astrium) planning to take passengers into space from 2012.

[edit] Works

Objects he has designed include:

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
The Dish Doctor for Magis in 1997
The MN bicycles for Biomega in 1999
The Scope series of bags for Samsonite
Cookware for Tefal
Items for Alessi
The O21C Concept Car for the Ford Motor Company in 1999
Clothes for the clothing company G-Star Raw
The business class seat 'Skybed' for Qantas, where he also heads up the interior design team for the Qantas A380 to be delivered in 2008
The Qantas first class lounges in Melbourne and Sydney

Restaurant spaces he has designed include:

Lever House Restaurant & Bar, New York (2002–)
Canteen, New York (1999–2004)

More recently, his work has become amongst the highest selling in auctions. His Lockheed Lounge (designed in 1986 shortly after he graduated from school and one of the items that established him as a designer) sold for $968,000 at Sotheby's in 2006. At that year's Design Miami fair he produced 12 Chop Top tables, all of which sold out in 20 minutes at an estimated $170,000^[1].