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  • Provenance

    Galerie kreo, Paris

  • Literature

    Domus, September 1992, pp. 67-69; Yvònne G.J.M. Joris, ed., Ron Arad, Gijs Bakker, Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, Bruno Ninaber van Eyben, Benno Premsela: Design for Cor Unum Ceramics, exh. cat., Museum het Kruithuis, 1993, p. 41; Phil Starling, “An Australian in Paris,” Blueprint, February 1994, front cover and p. 31; Jean Bond Rafferty, ”Making Waves,” Harper’s Bazaar, April 1994, p. 140; Volker Albus and Volker Fischer, 13 Nach Memphis: Design Zwichen Askese und Sinnlichkeit, Munich, 1995, p. 127; Alice Rawsthorn, “Marc Newson,” The International Design Magazine, January/February 1996, p. 70; Akiko Bush, “George Nelson Design Awards 1999,” Interiors, May 1999, p. 95; Alice Rawsthorn, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 64-69 and 213; Claire Fayolle, “Marc Newson: Á Fond La Forme,” Beaux Arts Magazine, June 2000, p. 55; Anne Watson, “Marc Newson: Design Works,” Powerline, Spring 2001, p. 5; Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2002, pp. 150, 157 and 170-171; Louise Neri, ed., Marc Newson, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2007, p. 64

  • Catalogue Essay

    The “Event Horizon Table" will be included as “MN - 13EHTR-1992” in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of limited editions by Marc Newson being prepared by Didier Krzentowski of Galerie kreo, Paris.
     
    Phillips de Pury & Company would like to thank Marc Newson and Didier Krzentowski for their assistance in cataloging this lot.
     
    An event horizon is the verge of a black hole, a point of no return from which light, matter, and radiation cannot escape. But approach is also impossible, for the horizon recedes, always out of reach. Two of Marc Newson’s early tables, “Black Hole” (1988) and “Event Horizon” (1992), directly address the designer’s abiding interest in outer space, and inner space too. The partially hollow legs of each table, like funnels, are conceptual renderings of black holes. “Both my sculptural work and the production furniture have always had as much to do with what is not there as what is there—the voids, the interior spaces, the things that you don’t see.” Newson manifests the conundrums of the universe through earthly materials, carbon fiber and aluminum in the case of those early tables. He renders the remote vagaries of the cosmos as accessible local objects and platforms for daily life.
     
    In the catalog accompanying Newson’s 2007 solo show at Gagosian Gallery, curator Louise Neri wrote: “Across his protean output, Newson has been preoccupied with how to achieve a maximum sense of volume with the least amount of material (or mass) possible, thereby creating space as a grand illusion of that volume.” Compact and dense, a black hole’s extreme mass creates a gravitational pull from which even light can’t escape—a heavy notion. Newson molded his table from aluminum, an everyday material whose lightness adds unexpected contradiction. “Event Horizon” is distinct and viewable, not vast and unknowable like the wooly idea it represents. Newson doesn’t conjecture, he builds.

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“Event Horizon Table"

1992
Polished aluminum, enameled aluminum.
31 1/2 x 70 5/8 x 38 in. (80 x 179.4 x 96.5 cm).
Produced by POD Edition, UK. Artist's proof number two of three for the edition of ten. Edge of top impressed with “MARC NEWSON EDITION EVENT HORIZON 1992” and with Pod logo.  This is the only example produced with blue interior.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for $242,500

The Collection of Halsey Minor

13 May 2010
New York