The famous Lockheed Lounges design by Australian Marc Newson has recently been sold at auction for $4.69 million in London on the Tuesday, 28th April 2015. It once again sets itself as the most expensive lounge furniture by a living artist. The previous record was his first Lockheed Lounge prototype which had sold for about £1.4 million.

So where and how did this Lockheed Lounge made its way to become an iconic design? Let’s begin by taking a closer look at its origin. The first prototype was built in 1985 and was named LC1 after LeCorbusier’s LC4 Chaise Lounge, which Marc Newson’s was inspired by a seating reclaimer represented in a reproduction painting of [...]