“I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.”
Marc Newson“Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.”
Marc Newson“So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.”
Marc Newson“Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.”
Marc Newson“So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.”
Marc Newson“I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.”
Marc Newson“If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.”
Marc Newson“You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.”
Marc Newson“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”
Marc Newson“I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”
Marc Newson