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MARC NEWSON The Skoda Boutique, Berlin, 1992 comprising a long rail...

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MARC NEWSON The Skoda Boutique, Berlin, 1992 comprising a long rail...
MARC NEWSON
The Skoda Boutique, Berlin, 1992
comprising a long rail, two dressing room doors, clothes hooks,
140 aluminum "Orgone" shape floor tiles, the front door handle and
an important and unique
spheroid desk
the door: 100 3/8 x 25 1/4 in.
(255 x 64 cm) high
each floor tile: 11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.
(30 x 20 cm)
the desk: 47 1/4 in. (120 cm) high
53 1/2 in. (136 cm) diameter
door handle: 8 1/2 (21.5 cm) diameter
rail: 277 1/8 in. (704 cm) long
Estimate: $80,000-120,000 <p>ILLUSTRATED
Alice Rawsthorn, Marc Newson, London,
1999, p. 72
Domus, November 1994, pp. 61-63
Blueprint, February 1994, pp. 28-29
<p>When I was a kid I loved messing around in my grandfather's garage making skateboards and go-carts. I like forming metal into improbable shapes, into something that looks simple but is actually an impossible mind fuck." His favorite shape of the moment is the slinky hourglass silhouette that crops up in all his recent work from the Gloun chairs and stools he launched last year for Moroso, and the aluminum tiles on the floor of a Berlin boutique. "It's a shape that seems to pre-occupy me. I call it the Orgone after the wood and metal capsules that Reich told his followers to crawl into for a few minutes every day."
Blueprint 104,+February 1994,+pp. 28-29
<p>"[This is] Architecture for business and sales, but with the capacity to assert a good design aesthetic through a continuous, tight textural idiom. The result is an empty space, but certainly not in the minimalist sense.
The majority of today's retail outlets are thus characterized by a standardization of trade categories, repetitiveness, a marked sameness in the characteristic of articles sold and of the (presumed) tastes of customers, and by a hazy definition of detail. There are very few examples worthy of note, and not many where a more serious approach to design can be observed.
<p>One such, however, is the boutique designed by Marc Newson in Berlin for Claudia Skoda. A long and narrow space (about 4 by 18 m) acquires the refinement of goldsmithery (and Newson's earlier works lie precisely in that field of design). A ceiling, perforated by irregular holes that conceal the lighting system, is mirrored in the aluminum floor like a starry sky in water. There is very little furniture: a long aluminum rod on which to hang the clothes, that seems to have been molded by hand; horizontal shelving with heavily rounded edges; an unusual spheroidal desk, designed to run on two rails built into the floor, and singularly similar to the handle on the front door (a play of extreme dimensional variation?). Almost a second skin envelops the whole space. The corners - in both plan and section - are conspicuously blunted to play down any volumetric consistency, to blend the interior atmosphere more into one (where does the wall end? where do floor and ceiling begin?). Also, the structural elements (beams, posts or bearing wall) are concealed to confuse the ponderal relations between different parts. Could it be the weight of the ceiling that squashes the wall by bending their ground support?"
<p>Domus 765,+November 1994,+pp. 61-63
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