Marc Newson is an Australian designer, born in 1963 in Sydney. He studied the jewellery and the sculpture in Sydney College off the Arts.

In 1981, Marc Newson settles in Paris where he opens his own studio and works for european companies of furniture like Flos, Cappellini or Moroso. In 1987, he settles in Tokyo where he creates the Felt Chair.

In 1997, it settles in London and founds the studio Marc Newson Ltd. He works as a designer of furniture for Iittala, Alessi, Magis, B&B Italia, Idee and Dupont Corian and like industrial designer for Dassault Aviation and Ford.

In 2005, he is chosen by the Qantas airline company for designer the interior of a380 Airbus. In 2007, EADS Astrium calls upon him to carry out the interior design of its rocket, which will allow commercial voyages in space as from 2012.

His style is characterized by his audacity, by a great purity of form, tended and aerodynamic lines. Newson appreciates the new and technical materials like carbon, steel, the composite materials… but also cane, the string, the paperboard. His creations testify to an undeniable going eclecticism of pointed ultra creations to design of products of great consumption for Tefal or G-Star.