MARC NEWSON
“Micarta” desk, 2006
Linen phenolic composite. 28 1/4 x 101 x 37 5/8 in. (71.8 x 256.5 x 95.6 cm.)
Number five from an edition of ten. Underside with metal roundel “Micarta desk/ 5 / 10.” Catalgoue Raisonne number NEWSON 2006.0153.
ESTIMATE $170,000-190,000
LITERATURE Louise Neri, ed., Marc Newson, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2007, pp. 48-51 for a similar example
Marc Newson’s "Micarta" series, first shown at Gagosian Gallery in 2007, is heir to his “seamless inventions”, to borrow an expression from Louise Neri writing in that exhibition’s catalog. Neither joint nor junction disrupts the contour of the present desk, although Newson...
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