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Rare and important ‘Lockheed Lounge’, 1988
Fibreglass-reinforced polyester resin core, blind riveted sheet aluminium, rubber-coated polyester resin.   88.9 x 63.5 x 152.4 cm. (35 x 25 x 60 in.)  Produced by Basecraft for Pod, Australia.  From an edition of ten plus four artist’s proofs and one example with white feet.  Underside impressed with ‘BASECRAFT SYDNEY 12’.  Together with a certificate of authenticity from Marc Newson.    

PROVENANCE The artist; The artist's mother; The Chair, Christie’s, London, 11 May 1999, Lot 119

EXHIBITED  

LITERATURE 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 Zwischen Askese und Sinnlichkeit, Munich, 1995, p. 130;  Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds, 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 172-173; Mel Byars, 50 Chairs: Innovations in Design and Materials, Crans-Prés-Celigny, 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, exh. cat., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2000, front and back covers and p. 264; Cat Martin, ‘Designing for a Life in a Curvier World’, Blueprint, October 2001, p. 107; Stephen Crafti, Request.Response.Reaction. The Designers of Australia & New Zealand, Victoria, 2002, p. 84; Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2002, pp. 154-155; Harry Schwalb, ‘Reinventing Aluminum’, Artnews, May 2002, p. 114; Benjamin Loyauté, ‘Le Design Aluminium au XXe Siècle’, Connaissance des Arts, October 2003, p. 98; Marc Newson Pop On Pop Off, exh. cat., Groninger Museum, 2004, pp. 1 and 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, no. 860; Deyan Sudjic, The Language of Things, London, 2008, front cover and pp. 206-207; Sophie Lovell, Limited Edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture, Basel, 2009, p. 249

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This ‘Lockheed Lounge’ will be included as ‘MN-14LLB-1988’, in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of limited editions by Marc Newson, being prepared by Didier Krzentowski of Galerie Kreo, Paris. Marc Newson believes the present lot to be the first of four artist’s proofs,...

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