Apple designer Ive's custom charity desk revealed in new pics
Images emerged on Friday of a custom aluminum desk co-designed by Apple's Jony Ive for Bono's Product(RED) charity auction, showing that Ive's minimalist aesthetic carries through even in furniture design.
The new images (via Moco Loco) of the one-of-a-kind (RED) Desk show that it is machined from solid aluminum. The piece was fabricated by Neal Fay Studio, a renowned group of aluminum specialists. Ive designed it along with collaborator Marc Newson, with whom he also designed a one-of-a-kind Leica camera.
In a break from the smooth facades that typify other Ive creations, the (RED) Desk features a mosaic pattern on its surface, with a pattern of angular segments of different shades breaking up the otherwise clinical look of the piece. One bit of text on the desk signifies its uniqueness, reading "Designed by Jony Ive & Marc Newson for (RED) 2013 edition 01/01."
The (RED) Desk will go on auction at Sotheby's in New York on November 23 alongside the Leica and a set of gold EarPods. In a recent interview, Ive said he expects that the Leica will fetch roughly $6 million at auction. Also on auction will be a customized grand piano and a 2012 Range Rover, both bearing Ive and Newson's touch.
The new images (via Moco Loco) of the one-of-a-kind (RED) Desk show that it is machined from solid aluminum. The piece was fabricated by Neal Fay Studio, a renowned group of aluminum specialists. Ive designed it along with collaborator Marc Newson, with whom he also designed a one-of-a-kind Leica camera.
In a break from the smooth facades that typify other Ive creations, the (RED) Desk features a mosaic pattern on its surface, with a pattern of angular segments of different shades breaking up the otherwise clinical look of the piece. One bit of text on the desk signifies its uniqueness, reading "Designed by Jony Ive & Marc Newson for (RED) 2013 edition 01/01."
The (RED) Desk will go on auction at Sotheby's in New York on November 23 alongside the Leica and a set of gold EarPods. In a recent interview, Ive said he expects that the Leica will fetch roughly $6 million at auction. Also on auction will be a customized grand piano and a 2012 Range Rover, both bearing Ive and Newson's touch.
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I think Ive was the primary designer on the Lecua camera and Marc Newson on this desk. You can certainly see Newson's design influences in this desk.
To me it feels evident that the desk is Jony’s work and the mosaic is Newson’s.
I'd buy the plastic version for $100 less.
WwOooOOoOW
Thinking the same thing. Please tell me it didn't take them thousands of man hours to build that.
Nice looking, but I would expect it to be a source of a gazillion static electricity shocks on dry winter days....
I wondered the same thing.
It's possible that it was machined from a single large block of aluminum, though. It would be very expensive, but not as much as you might think - and for a one off charity piece like this, the extra cost wouldn't matter much. Remember that it's not that hard to find V8 engine blocks machined from single blocks of aluminum. This is larger, but not that much larger.
Obviously, if you were planning to mass produce them, machining from a single block of aluminum would be silly.
Maybe if he'd spent as much time on iOS 7 as he did on cameras and tables it wouldn't be such an unmitigated user interface disaster.
Maybe if he'd spent as much time on iOS 7 as he did on cameras and tables it wouldn't be such an unmitigated user interface disaster.
There are aspects of iOS7 that I don't like (that I've already written about) and it definitely has some flaws, but how is it an "unmitigated user interface disaster"?
You all stole from my my post 2 days ago where I got hissed , booed and thumbs downed!
2 legs? I thought Jony liked minimalism
Maybe he means this?
http://www.examiner.com/article/iphone-5s-ios-7-causes-nausea-and-headaches-users-complain-of-illness
Ive as Newson worked on this charity auction over 18 months. I think he can work on more than one thing at a time. Or maybe he did this stuff on nights and weekends. Some of these comments remind me of the "innovate, don't litigate" that pop up on every patent thread. As if Apple engineers spend their time dealing with patent lawsuits.
Maybe if he'd spent as much time on iOS 7 as he did on cameras and tables it wouldn't be such an unmitigated user interface disaster.
Hi Scott. Found a job yet?
No. You have to assemble it yourself: it comes in 64 bits. A bit bit gimmicky