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Realized Price:
$968,000

Lot 162: l - MARC NEWSON

Marc Newson - 1963-

Auction House: Sotheby's

Auction Location: New York, NY, USA

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1334 York Avenue

at 72nd Street

New York, NY

USA

10021

Phone: 00 1 212 606 7000

Fax: 0141 204 2502

Email: info@sothebys.com

Auction Title: Important 20th Century Design

Auction Date: June 14, 2006

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Description: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION

A PROTOTYPE LOCKHEED LOUNGE, MODEL NO. MN-1LLW LC1

measurements note
34 1/2 x 65 7/8 x 24 1/2 in. (87.6 x 167.2 x 62.2 cm)

produced by Pod

1986

stamped BASECRAFT

fiberglass and riveted sheet aluminum

LITERATURE

Seating for Six, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, 1986, n.p. (for the LC01)
Davina Jackson, "Open the Pod Door," Blueprint, February 1990, pp. 28-29
Mario Romanelli, "Marc Newson: Progetti tra il 1987 e il 1990," Domus, March 1990, p. 67
Volker Albus and Volker Fischer, 13 Nach Memphis: Design Zwichen Askese und Sinnlichkeit, Munich, 1995, p. 130
Alexander von Vegesack, Peter Dunas, and Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 172-173
Mel Byars, 50 Chairs: Innovations in Design and Materials, Crans-Prés-Celigny, Switzerland, 1997, pp. 94-97
Akiko Busch, "George Nelson Design Awards 1999," Interiors, May 1999, p. 95
Alice Rawsthorn, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 18-21
Uta Abendroth, et al., World Design: The Best in Classic and Contemporary Furniture, Fashion, Graphics and More, San Francisco, 2000, p. 269
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 2000, p. 605
Sarah Nichols, Aluminum by Design, New York, 2000, front and back cover and pp. 264-265
Cat Martin, "Designing for a Life in Curvier World," Blueprint, October 2001, p. 107
Anne Watson, "Marc Newson," Powerline, Spring 2001, p. 5
Stephen Crafti, Request.Response.Reaction. The Designers of Australia & New Zealand, Victoria, Australia, 2002, p. 84
Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, New York, 2002, pp. 154-155
Harry Schwalb, "Reinventing Aluminum," Artnews, May 2002, p. 114
Benjamin Loyauté, "Le Design Aluminum au XXe Siècle," Connaissance des Arts, October 2003, p. 98
Marc Newson Pop On Pop Off, exh. cat., Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2004, pp. 12-13
Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Shov, Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design, San Francisco, 2005, p. 38
Phaidon Design Classics, Volume Three, London, 2006, number 860

NOTE

The Lockheed Lounge will be included as "MN - 1LLW - 1986" in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of limited editions by Marc Newson, currently being prepared by Didier Krzentowski of Gallery kreo, Paris

Sotheby's would like to thank Alice Rawsthorn, Didier Krzentowski, Stuart Parr, and Marc Newson for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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