To achieve the level of precision and perfection he intended for the piece, Marc used thin sheets of pure aluminum, which was more malleable than an alloy. Over the next two years, he refined the form to create the Lockheed Lounge – named after an American aerospace company.
This helped to achieve the precise contours, but to assemble the panels together on the lounge, each had to be individually cut and filed to fit. Newson's riveted aluminium and fiberglass chaise longue fetched £2,434,500 during a sale at auction house Phillips in London last night. Anne Watson March 2008 (https://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/29/marc-newson-lockheed-lounge-new-auction-record-design-object-phillips/) Worth $968,000, the lounge chair was sold at Sotheby’s in 2006. Newson first displayed his iconic 'Lockheed Lounge' in his graduation exhibition at Sydney College of the Arts in 1983. Newson's riveted aluminium and fiberglass chaise longue fetched £2,434,500 during a sale at auction house Phillips in London last night. For this reason, each Lockheed in the edition is unique, taking up to six months to produce. The prototype differs slightly from rest of edition in the finishing of the feet, which have fiberglass showing where aluminum stops; the pieces in the edition have rubberised paint covering the feet. Ten editions of the seat were created, along with four artist's proofs and one prototype. The flowing shapes of his objects recall the streamlined style of the 1930s and features 3 legs that smoothly descend from the natural curves and which are covered with rubber. (http://marc-newson.com/lockheed-lounge/) The Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson has retained its title as the world's most expensive design object, after selling for more than £2 million. The following year he moved to Tokyo, where he mostly worked with the designer company Idée and where he created works such as the Super Guppy lamp (1987) and the Orgone lounge (1989) .He moved to Parisin 1991 where he set up …
Worth $968,000, the lounge chair was sold at Sotheby’s in 2006. Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He then launched a commercial version in 1986 at a Sydney gallery where it created a sensation.
The flowing shapes of his objects recall the streamlined style of the 1930s and features 3 legs that smoothly descend from the natural curves and which are covered with rubber. Edition of 10 + 4 artist’s proofs (black feet) + 1 prototype (white feet). This surpasses the £1.4 million raised by a prototype of the design when sold by the same auctioneers in 2010, when it first became the most expensive object sold by a living designer. The edition put up for auction by Phillips was estimated to fetch between £1.5 million and £2.5 million, and was eventually sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. (http://iliketowastemytime.com/most-expensive-lounge-chair-world) Edition of 10 + 4 artist’s proofs (black feet) + 1 prototype (white feet). The Lockheed Lounge was designed by the Australian designer Marc Newson who has enjoyed international fame since 1985. Dezeen is publishing an A … The chaise longue is formed from thin plates of aluminium welded side by side, with rivets beside the seams. 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. Described by the artist (Marc Newson) as a "Giant blog of Mercury", this airplane-style piece of interior art is considered the most expensive in the world. Ten editions of the seat were created, along with four artist's proofs and one prototype. (https://www.dezeen.com/2015/04/29/marc-newson-lockheed-lounge-new-auction-record-design-object-phillips/) Join the list for early access.The Lockheed Lounge was designed by the Australian designer Marc Newson who has enjoyed international fame since 1985. The chair was completed in his Sydney studio in 1986. Rather than use sandbags for hammering out nonspecific shapes, he made additional molds of fiberglass from the Lockheed’s form purely for hammering the aluminum panels. Worth $968,000, the lounge chair was sold at Sotheby’s in 2006. After it sold on the open market for just over $2.4 US Million dollars, it became known as one of the most expensive interior designs. The chaise longue is formed from thin plates of aluminium welded side by side, with rivets beside the seams. The flowing shapes of his objects recall the streamlined style of the 1930s and features 3 legs that smoothly descend from the natural curves and which are covered with rubber. En laissant volontairement apparents les matériaux et le mode d’assemblage, le designer défend l’intégrité de l’objet. Over the next two years, he refined the form to create the Lockheed Lounge – named after an American aerospace company.
In 1986 he was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council and staged a first exhibition featuring the Lockheed Lounge.
After it sold on the open market for just over $2.4 US Million dollars, it became known as one of the most expensive interior designs. He wanted to address two issues, the first being that the LC1 felt “too derivative and postmodern” and the second being that the form was not as ambiguous or as fluid as he had intended. This surpasses the £1.4 million raised by a prototype of the design when sold by the same auctioneers in 2010, when it first became the most expensive object sold by a living designer. Join the list for early access.The Lockheed Lounge was designed by the Australian designer Marc Newson who has enjoyed international fame since 1985. This in turn broke the former 2009 record, held by Marc Newson; which overtook a previous record in this line of records that was set, in 2006, by Australian designer Marc Newson.