A biography for Marc Newsonhasn’t been written yet.
“To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.”
“Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.”
“And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.”
“I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”
“You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.”
“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.”
“But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”
“I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.”
“I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.”
“Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.”
“You know like it has its own personality, its own character.”