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The Lockheed Chaise designed by Marc Newson, the world's most expensive lounge. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Chaise longue, 'Lockheed Lounge', and pattern mould, fibreglass / aluminium / polyester resin / polyurethane, designed by Marc Newson, made by Marc Newson and Eckhard Reissig, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1988-1990 The Lockheed Lounge was designed by the Australian designer Marc Newson who has enjoyed international fame since 1985. ↓ Pour réaliser la Lockheed Lounge, Marc Newson a riveté une multitude de panneaux en aluminium sur un moule en fibre de verre qu'il a lui-même fabriqué. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. The upper raised end is supported on one cone shaped fibreglass leg and the lower end supported on two cone legs. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. If you would like to ask the world famous artist/designer that created the “Lockheed Lounge”, you would have to contact him directly. LC1 Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson (1985 Edition – early version/precurson to the LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chair) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, Art Gallery of South Australia Prototype of the LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, Phillips de Pury & Company LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1988, Limited Edition of 10) – Copyright: © Marc Newson LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson & Phillips LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson from POD (1986-1988) with impressed underside of each chair reading “Basecraft Sydney” – Copyright: © Marc Newson & Phillips MARC NEWSON working on a LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed (1986-1988) at the BASECRAFT Workshop (Sydney, Australia) – Copyright: © Marc Newson MARC NEWSON working on a LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Lounge-Lounger-Daybed (1986-1988) at the BASECRAFT Workshop (Sydney, Australia) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, TEDxSydney MARC NEWSON Portrait (photo by Romeo Balancourt) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, Romeo Balancourt MADONNA (from ‘Rain’ Video Clip, 1993) on LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Longue-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, MTV, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros Records MADONNA (from ‘Rain’ Video Clip, 1993) on LOCKHEED LOUNGE Chaise Longue-Lounger-Daybed by Marc Newson (1986-1988) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, MTV, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros Records MINIATURE LOCKHEED LOUNGE Replica of the 1988 Limited Edition of 10 by Marc Newson from VITRA (scale of 1 to 6) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, VITRA Design Museum MINIATURE LOCKHEED LOUNGE Replica of the 1988 Limited Edition of 10 by Marc Newson from VITRA (scale of 1 to 6) – Copyright: © Marc Newson, VITRA Design Museum This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Biographie. To list but a few of his household clients’ names: Many of his designs have been a runaway success for his clients and have achieved the status of modern design icons. LOCKHEED LOUNGE, 1990 by Marc Newson (B. Designed 1985-1988, this example was executed before 1993. But Marc Newson’s main inspiration for this piece came from the seating type called “He recalls that he had the idea of a fluid, aluminium form like a “He kicked-off his creation by, literally, carving his first ‘prototype’ with an electric kitchen knife and a wire brush out of a massive lump of polyurethane foam in his garden at the back of the This first edition of the chair was exhibited at the “But Newson was not satisfied with the backrest of that first chair so he kept working at the Basecraft Workshop and re-editing it over the 1986-1988 period until, This 1988 last iteration of the LOCKHEED LOUNGE was, subsequently, produced in a Actually, as the designer explains, the LOCKHEED LOUNGE was produced in a Limited Edition of 10 not because his intention was to produce a “Limited Edition” but, simply, because it was physically impossible for him to make more.