Helmut Newton

HELMUT NEWTON (Germany, 1920- California, 2004), PHILIPPE STARCK (France, 1949)
"Sumo" 1999.
Book in XXL format and lectern.
Copy 07610 /10000.
Cloth cover and illustrated dust jacket.
Published by Taschen, Monte Carlo.
464 pages of reproductions of photographs of Helmut Newton.
Chrome-plated metal lectern designed by Philippe Starck.
Signed and numbered.
Language: English.
Measurements: 76 x 56 x 56 cm (book); 71 x 50 x 7.5 cm (lectern):
Taschen's flagship work, it contains more than four hundred color and black-and-white photographs, most of them unpublished.
Newton was born in Berlin, attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he bought his first camera, he worked for German photographer Yva (Elsie Neuländer Simon) from 1936.Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue and left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. Newton left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris, where he worked for French and German magazines. He returned to Melbourne in March 1959 to work with Australian Vogue. Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961. His images appeared in magazines such as the French edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. He established a particular style marked by erotic and stylized scenes, often with fetishistic subtexts. In 1980 he created the "Big Nudes" series. It followed his "Nude and Dressed" portfolio and in 1992 "Domestic Nudes", which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style.
Philippe Starck is a world-renowned French industrial designer. He founded his first industrial design company, Starck Product, which he later renamed Ubik after the famous novel by Philip K. Dick. Here he began working with the major design manufacturers in Italy, Driade, Alessi, Kartell, and others throughout Europe, Drimmer in Austria, Vitra in Switzerland and Disform in Spain, for example. In 1983, then French President François Mitterrand, on the recommendation of his Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, chose Starck to renovate the President's private apartments at the Élysée. The following year he designed the Café Costes. Over the years, Starck worked with top Italian furniture brands, including the creation of the iconic Generic chair for Kartell, the innovative Lady Hio table for Glass Italia and elegant sofas and armchairs for the likes of Cassina and Driade. Starck has won prestigious awards such as the "Oscar du luminaire" (1980), the Silver Delta Award (1986), the Platinum Circle (1987), the Grand Prix National de la Création Industrielle (1988), the Interior Architecture Award (1990), the Twelfth Annual Interiors Award (1991), the Good Design Award (1995, 2000), the Auszeichnung für hohe Designqualität (1998) and the German Ranking Design Award (2000), among others. In 1985, he was also made a knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.