'Embryo' chair
Designer
Marc Newson
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Idée
Origin
Japan
Year
1988
Design Museum Section
Australian Design Icons
Categories
Armchairs, Lounge chairs
Designheroes ID
54536
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Embryo' chair
Neoprene, brushed aluminium.
designed 1988
Manufactured by Idée, Japan.
77 x 64 x 85 cm (30 3/8 x 25 1/4 x 33 1/2 in)
Literature
Anne Watson, Take a seat: chair design in the 20th century, exh., cat. Powerhouse Museum,Sydney, 1989, n.p.
Domus (Milan), no. 714, March 1990, pp, 65, 68-69
Alice Rawsthorn, Marc Newson, London, 1999, pp. 152-53
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., Designing the 21st Century, Cologne, 2001, p. 214
Conway Lloyd Morgan, Marc Newson, London, 2002, pp. 134-135, 152-53