The Master, Judd Tully, went to Phillips Design auction yesterday to see what fate might befall the Marc Newson works being sold to satisfy the debt of–as Tully so aptly describes him–“disgraced Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor”:

Of the ten Newsons offered (among them two rare prototypes), six sold for a rather anemic $686,300, a poor showing for work by the superstar but safely within the $600,000-915,000 estimate Phillips had attached to the works. “Obviously, it was disappointing,” said Phillips de Pury design head Alexander Payne immediately after the sale, referring to two of the unsold Newsons, Event Horizon and a lot containing his Black Hole tables, which failed to find any bidders. “It was a little difficult to digest this quantity of Newson works.” Continue Reading