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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.

Marc Newson

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Marc Newson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 20
Designer
Industrial Designer
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Sydney
NSW
Marc Andrew Newson
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