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Australian industrial designer

Marc Andrew Newson (born 20 October 1963) is an Australian industrial designer, creative director, and artist who, in a career spanning nearly four decades, has worked in many industry sectors including furniture, product, and transportation design, luxury goods, fashion, and fine art. His work is primarily characterized by smooth geometric lines, organic shapes, an absence of sharp edges, and the use of transparency and translucency. Newson's Lockheed Lounge chair holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for the work of a living designer. Design critic Alice Rawsthorn called Newson "one of the most influential designers of his generation", and fellow designer Jony Ive has described him as "fairly peerless now".

Newson was born in Sydney, Australia on 20 October 1963 to Carol and Paul Newson, an electrician. Carol was 19 years old when she was pregnant with Marc, and married Paul during the pregnancy. However, Paul left the family soon after Marc was born, and Carol moved back into her parents’ house to raise Marc. Newson is of Greek origin on his mother's side. He studied jewellery design and sculpture the Sydney College of the Arts, and graduated in 1984.

Newson married Charlotte Stockdale, a fashion stylist, in 2008. They have two children They also have homes in London, Paris, and Greece. Every year he races one of his four vintage sports cars – an Aston Martin, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and a Cisitalia – in the Italian Mille Miglia, while wearing bespoke tweed driving suits by H. Huntsman & Sons, and was quoted as saying: "I'm not a motor head, I don't like the new versions of any of those cars." One of Newson's best friends is Sir Jonathan Ive of Apple Inc., whom he met in Japan. The auction raised $13 million which was subsequently matched by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing the total raised to approximately $26 million.

Newson’s work has been exhibited in both group exhibitions and in solo shows, with the most recent one being At Home, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2013). Objects he has designed include:

Newson designed the Qantas first class lounges in Melbourne and Sydney, as well as the invitation only Chairman's Lounges. In 1995 Newson designed Coast restaurant in London (in collaboration with architect Robert Grace). He designed the Canteen restaurant in the early 2000s and the Lever House Restaurant & Bar in 2003 (in collaboration with the architect Sebastien Segers), both in New York. In 2005 he designed the bar and the 6th floor of the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, where each floor was designed by a world renowned architect or designer. He was selected as the artistic director for the 2011 Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks display. He has also designed homes for himself in Paris, London, the Cotswolds, and Greece. In 2023 he unveiled his design for a "trustworthy and honest" public toilet in Tokyo.