Marc Newson

Teruo Kurosaki, Idée, Tokyo
Private Collection, Tokyo
Sotheby's London, October 17, 2017, lot 85
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Alice Rawsthorn and Marc Newson, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 34-37, fig. 34, p. 212 (for the variant of the model)
Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2003, pp. 172-173, p. 182 (for the variant of the model)
Alison Castle, Alice Rawsthorn, Kristine Köper, et al., Marc Newson: Works, Cologne, 2012, pp. 41-43 (for the variant of the model)

This lot is offered together with a copy of the certificate of authenticity issued by the artist in 2015.

Originally commissioned for the "House of Fiction: domestic blueprints in wood" exhibition in South Wales, Marc Newson's "Wood" chair was produced by his own company Pod. Several versions were produced since 1988, following the symmetry and lightness developed through this prototype, were produced with some alterations and it is still in production by Cappellini. The present chair is made up of two sets of symmetric strips of wood looping on themselves to give the alpha-letter form to the seat's backrest. This a unique version due to the design of the symmetrical wooden strips and there is no edition number.