Marc Newson Designs

In June 1986, having recently graduated in sculpture, jewellery and furniture design from Sydney College of the Arts, Marc Newson accepted the opportunity to exhibit new furniture designs at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

As a child growing up in Australia, Newson had benefitted from a cosmopolitan education that included regular exposure to museum collections, art galleries, and of course to cinema, particularly the modernist space-age Ken Adam-designed interiors for the James Bond franchise, and the quasi-Utopian futurism of Kubrick’s ‘2001’.

Lockheed Lounge Chair Newson Design

Trying to justify spending one or two thousand on that beautiful new chaise lounge you have your eye on, this will help! The Lockheed Lounge chair reminiscent of something the aerospace industry may have produced is a well-rounded metal structure that takes on a fresh look from all angles.

One sold at Christies for around $100,000 in the year 2000. This model was number 10 or 10. Another sold in October 2007 for 750,000. It did not quite reach its estimate on that day.

The next Lockheed lounge chair was then placed at Christies in October 2017 for auction. This model believed to be number 7 of 10, sold for a remarkable price.

Produced by Basecraft for Pod, Australia, fibreglass-reinforced polyester resin core, blind-riveted sheet aluminium, painted polyester resin impressed ‘BASECRAFT SYDNEY’ 34 ¾ x 66 x 25 in. (88.5 x 168 x 63.5 cm.)

Designed 1985-1988, this example was executed before 1993. This work is number seven from the edition of ten, plus four artist’s proofs (black feet) and one prototype (white feet).

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, February 1993, signed and dated by the artist.

Designer Marc Newson’s 1986 gift to the privileged few, ten to be exact, gives truth to the mass production theory and it’s affect on an items price. This beautiful yet firm chaise lounge sold at Christies famed auction house for an astonishing $1.5 million to a well-funded admirer.