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Marc Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in structure and advanced technology, combined with a tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer—the only one represented by Gagosian—his reach is broad and diverse, incorporating watches, footwear, luggage, and aircraft interiors. Since the outset of his career, he has also produced limited-edition furniture, including the iconic Lockheed Lounge (1988). As distinctions between art and design become increasingly blurred, Newson remains a trailblazer, having pursued parallel activities in exclusive and mass production for more than thirty years. Born in Sydney in 1963, Newson graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 1986. Receiving a grant from the Australian Crafts Council, he staged his first solo exhibition, Seating for Six , at Roslyn Oxley9 in Sydney, when he was just twenty-three. By the age of twenty-five, he had produced the hand-built Lockheed Lounge , a chaise lounge named after its riveted aluminum panels’ resemblance to the aircraft engineered by Lockheed Martin. After living and working in Sydney, Tokyo, and Paris, he relocated to London, where his company, Marc Newson Limited, has been based since 1997. Newson has also concomitantly held senior positions at clients’ companies: he was creative director of Qantas Airways from 2005 to 2015, and he has been a designer for special projects at Apple since 2014. In 2019, Marc and Sir Jonathan Ive founded the creative collective LoveFrom. Newson is perhaps best known for applying his aesthetic vision and technical mastery to innovative items of furniture, such as Extruded Tables and Voronoi Shelf (both 2007), both carved from single blocks of Carrara and Bardiglio marble respectively. He has also produced pieces using the Chinese cloisonné technique, revealing in the process his training as a silversmith and watchmaker. Crafted by hand in Beijing, these works feature an intricate type of enameling typically used for figurines and vases yet here applied at a larger scale in all-over patterns to copper chairs, lounges, and desks. Newson has also made extensive use of glass with a series of cast glass chairs comprised of pairs of hollow quarter-spheres, each colored upper half resting on a translucent base that reflects and refracts its hue, suggesting eyes or sea creatures. Another artisanal technique usually reserved for smaller objects—this one from Venice—appears in the Murrina series, which includes a console, a desk, and a low table. These works were made by slicing multicolored glass rods before heating and fusing them together in a mold, revealing densely patterned cross sections. The streamlined results combine sleek outer surfaces with vivid internal coloration and hint at cells and other biological structures. Newson continues to investigate, reconsider, and remake objects identified with a wide variety of cultural contexts. After producing a nickel surfboard for American surfer Garrett McNamara, which was presented at Gagosian, New York, in 2007, he produced a series of boards in aluminum. He has also exhibited an Aikuchi sword made by swordsmith Saburo Nobufusa Hokke, who is a Japanese Living National Treasure from the Tōhoku region. By relocating such objects to the realm of fine art, Newson underscores their broader significance, showing the value of technical precision to be a functional and an aesthetic concern. In addition to having his work in numerous significant museum and private collections of art and design, and exhibiting internationally, Newson has been included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list and has received numerous awards and distinctions including honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Art, London, and the University of Sydney. He was made Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.