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There's more to art than meets the eye. Here is a selection of lots from past Saturday@Phillips sales. See what the experts say and then add your own pop-up knowledge or comments. Move your cursor over the image to reveal pop-up information. saturday@phillips.com
- User:
what a creation
- Art expert:
Newson has said, “I approach design in a fairly subliminal way which is lucky because I don't have time to think about it too much.”
- Art expert:
After a childhood fascination with watches, Newson created his POD watch in 1986. Its form inspired the launch of the brand IKEPOD eight years later.
- Art expert:
His famous “Pod of Drawers” design from 1987 was made from materials he stole from the model-making workship where he worked part time in London.
- Art expert:
When given £30,000 to spend by Sir Terence Conran of the Conran Foundation Collection in 2001, Marc Newson’s fantasy shopping list included a cosmonaut’s suit worn on a Soviet Space Agency mission into space.
- Wicker chair
- Marc Newson
- December 1 2007
- $7000 to $9000
- $10625
