Marc Andrew Newson an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewelry, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency, and tends to have an absence of sharp edges.

Career

Newson graduated at the Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia studying jewelry and sculpture. 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. He describes his Embryo Chair as "one of the first pieces where I hit upon a discernible style".

He co-founded the Ikepod watch company. In 1997 he moved to London, where he and business partner Benjamin de Haan set up Marc Newson Ltd.

His work has become amongst the highest selling in auctions. 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.

He joined Apple Inc. to then leave with Sir Jony Ive on his own independent firm, LoveFrom.