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Marc Andrew Newson CBE (born 20 October 1963) is an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency and tends to have an absence of sharp edges. ==Career== Newson was born in Sydney, Australia, and in 1984 he graduated at the Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia studying jewellery and sculpture. In 1986 he was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council and staged a first exhibition featuring the Lockheed Lounge. The following year he moved to Tokyo, where he lived and worked until he moved to Paris in 1991 where he set up a studio.〔(Design Boom 9 April 2003 Interview )〕 He describes his 1988 Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style". He co-founded the Ikepod watch company with Oliver Ike in 1994, leaving the company in 2012.〔(Luxury Insider August 2010 )〕〔Nick Statt, CNET, ("Apple hires legendary designer Marc Newson ahead of 'iWatch' launch" ), 5 September 2014. "Ikepod, which Newson founded in 1994 and departed from two years ago"〕 In 1997 he moved to London, where he and business partner Benjamin de Haan set up Marc Newson Ltd though he still has a house in Paris. He is currently adjunct professor in design at Sydney College of the Arts (where he first studied sculpture and jewellery) and is the creative director for Qantas.〔(Design Build Network 8 February 2011 )〕 In 2005, he was selected as one of ''Time'' magazine's 100 most influential people of the year. His work has become amongst the highest selling in auctions. One of his three Lockheed Lounge chairs sold for $968,000 at Sotheby's in 2006,〔(Business Week15 December 2006 )〕 and £1,100,000 at a 2009 auction at Phillips de Pury & Company.〔(Bloomberg 21 December 2009 )〕 At the 2006 Design Miami fair he produced 12 Chop Top tables, all of which sold out in 20 minutes at an estimated $170,000.〔 In April 2015 his Lockheed Lounge chair sold at auction for £UK2.4 million ($AU4.69 million), making it the most expensive object ever sold by a living designer.〔(Henrietta Thompson, The Telegraph, 28 April 2015, Luxury, Newson's Lockheed Lounge breaks world auction records ). Retrieved 10 May 2015〕 Every year he races one of his four vintage sports cars – an Aston Martin, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and a Cisitalia, in the Italian Mille Miglia and was quoted as saying: "I'm not a motor head, I don't like the new versions of any of those cars."〔(''The Sydney Magazine'', 4 August 2009 )〕 Newson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to design.〔(New Year Honours 2012 ) The Daily Telegraph〕 He joined Apple Inc. in September 2014.〔(Marc Newson to Join Apple’s Design Team ) Vanity Fair〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marc Newson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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