PRESS RELEASE
ICONIC LOCKHEED LOUNGE BY MARC NEWSON TO BE OFFERED AT PHILLIPS
DESIGN EVENING SALE: 28 April 6pm
VIEWING: 22 – 28 April 2015 Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6EX
AUCTION LOCATION: Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6EX
LONDON – 2 APRIL 2015 – Phillips is pleased to offer Marc Newson’s iconic Lockheed Lounge (circa 1990) which will appear as a highlight of the Design Evening Sale on 28 April 2015. Among the most influential and prolific designers of the last quarter century, Newson was appointed C.B.E. in 2010 by Her Majesty the Queen for services rendered to the field of international design. In 2014 he joined Sir Jonathan Ive on the design team at Apple. Throughout his nearly three-decade career, Newson has produced influential limited edition works as well as products for a diverse roster of brands including Nike, Ford, Qantas, and Azzedine Alaia, among others.
A Lockheed Lounge has not appeared on the auction market since Phillips set the world auction record for this design at $2.1m in 2010, the highest price realized at auction for a work by a living designer. Of the 15 extant examples, four are in permanent museum collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. The remaining 11 are in private collections.
MARC NEWSON
'Lockheed Lounge', 1990
Fibreglass-reinforced polyester resin core, blind riveted sheet aluminium, rubber-coated polyester resin.
87 x 168.3 x 61.6 cm (34 1/4 x 66 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)
ESTIMATE £1,500,000 – 2,500,000 / $2,200,000 – 3,700,000
The hand-wrought curves of Newson’s chair hint at fundamental human limitations while simultaneously suggesting the perfection of industrial processes. Lockheed Lounge, a paragon of youthful ambition, engendered all of Marc Newson’s later preoccupations with flow, speed and seamlessness.
PHILLIPS:
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