Marc Newson

According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, newson designed the Embryo chair in 1988, manufactured by Cappellini.⁵ In 1995, Oliver Peyton commissioned Newson to design the interiors of London's Coast restaurant, working with Robert Grace Architecture.⁶ Wallpaper described the interior as having white walls and floors and curved lines; the restaurant closed in 2000.⁶

According to Wallpaper*, several objects and furniture pieces Newson designed for Coast were later put into production.⁶ Newson also designed the Marmo Bar at Madrid's Hotel Silken Puerta América, which features approximately 400 aluminium beams nearly seven metres tall.⁷

According to CNET, newson founded the watch company Ikepod in 1994.⁸ The Montblanc M collection, developed by Newson, launched in September 2015 and was offered as fountain, rollerball, ballpoint, touch-screen, and drawing instruments.² Launch-year nibs carried the initials 'MN' as an homage to Newson, using a gold nib with a two-tone rhodium and ruthenium finish.²

Newson said he sought to balance functional simplicity with a sensory experience in using the Montblanc M.² For Knoll, Newson designed the Newson Task Chair, whose support is intended to be visually unrecognizable.³ Newson said he develops and engineers designs on computers, but ideas are not born there.⁵

Apple confirmed that Newson joined its design team led by Jonathan Ive; Vanity Fair reported that the two had been close friends for years.⁴ Ive and Newson said they were excited to formalize a collaboration they had found effective.⁴ News coverage linked Newson's hiring to Apple's expected watch launch, but that link was reporters' framing, not confirmed causation.^1,8 Newson and Ive curated a benefit auction for (Red); CNET reported that it raised $26.2 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.⁸

A Pod of Drawers designed by Newson in 1987 sold at a Paris auction for €1.019 million, more than twice its estimate.¹ Artcurial said all lots in its Heavy Metal sale sold, totalling €2.7 million.¹ CNET reported that a Newson work sold for $1.6 million in 2006, which it described as a record at the time for a living contemporary designer.⁸