BUMPER BED
Designer
Marc Newson
Description
From the Domeau & Peres Editions French master-craftsmen Domeau & Pérès have long collaborated with Australian designer Marc Newson on projects encompassing interiors of a spaceship, a Falcon Jet, and product design pieces. This collaboration unveils a leather-upholstered bed surrounded by chunky bumpers at its base. The piece was included in the retrospective ‘Marc Newson at Home’ presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2013. Marc Newson enclosed the Bumper Bed within padded leather cushions to evoke the sense of sleeping on a mattress laid directly on the ground. "Most people I know have at some point in their lives slept on a mattress on the floor," said Newson. "So I thought it would be nice to design a bed that would [encourage] people like me to replace their faithful mattress with a 'beautiful bed'." One lip sits flush with the mattress and a second wraps around the bed at floor level, with an orange leather strip running between the two. The sides are deep enough to be used as seats and can be ordered from Domeau & Pérès in white, dove (pictured), or chocolate colors.
Marc Newson
Marc Newson
Marc Newson (b. Australia, 1963) was named one of Time magazine's Top 100 most influential people in the world in 2005. Among the most prolific and accomplished designers of his generation, Newson has applied his futuristic, technically rigorous approach to everything from bicycles, concept cars, restaurants, and commercial jet interiors to kitchen and bath accessories and clothing.
After traveling in Europe and Asia throughout his childhood, he studied jewelry and sculpture in Sydney before his breakthrough piece of furniture design, the 1986 Lockheed Lounge, a fluid metallic form that quickly appeared in magazines worldwide.
Marc Newson
Marc Newson (b. Australia, 1963) was named one of Time magazine's Top 100 most influential people in the world in 2005. Among the most prolific and accomplished designers of his generation, Newson has applied his futuristic, technically rigorous approach to everything from bicycles, concept cars, restaurants, and commercial jet interiors to kitchen and bath accessories and clothing.
After traveling in Europe and Asia throughout his childhood, he studied jewelry and sculpture in Sydney before his breakthrough piece of furniture design, the 1986 Lockheed Lounge, a fluid metallic form that quickly appeared in magazines worldwide.
