B4U Furniture Design History

Marc Newson

“Good designers are geeks, bad designers are not geeks”, is quoted from the man himself during a BBC interview. He believes that to be a good designer is to have the desire to know things. This need of wanting to know every minute details of how things work is important to understand how to create things. His first design that got a lot of attention was the Lockheed Lounge chair, made out of hundreds of aluminium panels hammered onto a homemade fibreglass mould. This piece has a futuristic look to it with all the aluminium pieces, but it also exudes a warm modernist feel to it because we can see that it is a man laboured piece of art. His design’s reflects his love for the space age era, in a lot of his work.





Philippe Starck














The new transparent chairs designed by Phillipe Starck are possible because of the innovation in material. The La Marie chair is the first fully transparent chair, formed in a single mould. The use of an everyday material like polycarbonate, and making it as slim and light looking with complete transparency is amazing. His designs are mostly concentrated for mass production for access to many people. In a society where everything is technologically focused, styling of objects can attract people into buying a certain product. With products like furniture, the evolving of new processes and material is vital because it can make a difference in a success of a product.


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-Furniture, viewed 6th Mar, http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/previous/marc_newson.asp
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- Furniture, viewed 6th Mar, http://www.designboom.com/portrait/newson.html
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-About, viewed 7th Mar, http://www.starck.com/