This piece of furniture was sold at Phillips de Pury auction for 1.6 million dollars

April 30 in London was auctioned Phillips de Pury, which were presented to the works of modern designers. Top-lot auction was chair-lounge called Lockheed Lounge. Its author - the Australian designer Marc Newson (Marc Newson). Armchair yielded 1.1 million pounds (1.6 million dollars), far surpassing estimeyt (500-700 thousand pounds), and became the most expensive in the world of work is now living designer. The previous record belonged to the same chair, sold in October 2007 to 748.5 thousand pounds (1.5 million dollars).

futuristic chair Lockheed Lounge was first presented to the public in 1985, when Marc Newson, it was only 22. The decision to create a clothes-line, he explained that it inspired the famous painting of Jacques-Louis David (Jacques-Louis David) «Portrait of Madame rivers». Critics have compared the work to the works of sculptors Newson-modernists such as Jean Arp (Jean Arp), Arkhipenko , Isam Noguchi (Isamu Noguchi). In 1993, a seat in the Rain clip famous singer Madonna (Madonna). A copy sold at Phillips, was completed in 1988.

Among the top auction lot also includes four spotlights Komed, Newson created in the mid 1990's. They went for 61 250 pounds, with 20-30 thousand estimeyte.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru