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Lot Essay
Conceived as a suite together with the Event Horizon centre table, the Orgone chair and its companion chaise refined the characteristic 'double-blob' hourglass form of Newson's earlier creations, the Lockheed and the Pod. Again using aluminium, the intensely technical handworking of the medium allows for the aesthetics and properties of the material to yield a seamless vision of fluid metallic form. The sweepingly futuristic presence of the Orgone - which involved the rolling, hammering and welding of thin sheet aluminium - was realised by the craft-based techniques perfected by the master craftsmen who once produced coach-work for Aston Martin.
Formally, the contrasting dialogue between smoothed reflective surfaces and the magnetic, red-enamelled voids, offers an intangibility of substance that has evolved as one of the keystones of Newson's design vocabulary. The concept of this series of three furnishings was inspired by the universal life force, 'Orgone', hypothesised by the psychoanalyst William Reich who used a booth or capsule-like device in which he placed his patients to capture this force, which he believed would restore psychological well-being.
This Orgone chair will be included as "MN - 9OC - 1993" in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of limited editions by Marc Newson, currently being prepared by Didier Krzentowski of Gallery kreo Paris
Formally, the contrasting dialogue between smoothed reflective surfaces and the magnetic, red-enamelled voids, offers an intangibility of substance that has evolved as one of the keystones of Newson's design vocabulary. The concept of this series of three furnishings was inspired by the universal life force, 'Orgone', hypothesised by the psychoanalyst William Reich who used a booth or capsule-like device in which he placed his patients to capture this force, which he believed would restore psychological well-being.
This Orgone chair will be included as "MN - 9OC - 1993" in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of limited editions by Marc Newson, currently being prepared by Didier Krzentowski of Gallery kreo Paris