Marc Newson

Teruo Kurosaki, Idée, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Alice Rawsthorn and Marc Newson, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 34-37, fig. 34, p. 212
Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2003, pp. 172-173, p. 181 for a discussion about the designer's time spent with Teruo Kurosaki in Japan, p. 182
Alison Castle, Alice Rawsthorn, Kristine Köper, et al., Marc Newson: Works, Cologne, 2012, pp. 41-43

Overall very good condition. Minor and mild warping to the wood in some areas. Minor scuff marks to the back of the back rest and throughout the bottom parts of the chair. Four hairlines to the bent of the wood to the apron of the chair. A hairline to the back bottom strip right side proper, approximately 10 cm long. A minor chip to the back bottom strip, second from the right. Missing screw to the right front strip of the wood.
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Marc Newson is an Australian industrial designer best known for designs involving areas as varied as aircraft, surfing, car design, pen and watch making and even hunting gun design amongst others. Often referred to as one of the greatest designers of the digital age, it is difficult to find something that he hasn’t tried to reinterpret. Alongside the work produced for major furniture and interior brands, his designs bear witness to carefully considered user-friendliness and a recognisable biomorphic and futuristic style that has promoted his work’s visual identity since the 1980s.

Marc Newson’s prototypes bear an immense value as they outline and bring forth his work’s development process. Originally commissioned for ‘The House of Fiction: domestic blueprints in wood’ exhibition in South Wales, the designer’s Wood chair was produced by his own company ‘Pod’. Several versions were produced since 1988, following the symmetry and lightness developed through this prototype, were produced with some modifications and it is still in production by Cappellini. The chair is made up of two sets of symmetric strips of wood looping on themselves to give the alpha-letter form to the seat`s rest back rest.