“To raise money for their relocation to Kensington, the Design Museum has partnered with Phillips to stage the ‘Time for Design’ auction in Berkeley Square,” Elly Parsons reports for Wallpaper*.
“Keen to get in on the action, Apple’s chief design officer Sir Jony Ive has created something new: a one-of-a-kind accessory collection for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro,” Parsons reports. “Ive has a long history with the Design Museum, which is due to close its Shad Thames location in May, and reopen in Kensington at the end of November. He won their inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 for the iMac, and he also showed a prototype of a mobile phone at the museum way back in 1990.”
“His new accessory collection includes an iPad Pro housing, which has been anodised with a custom dye; a blue, suede-lined ‘Smart Cover,’ crafted from supple French leather; and an orange cover for the Apple Pencil, created from fine grain Italian calf leather,” Parsons reports. “Ive’s new products are in single editions, designed exclusively for the Design Museum event. To prove it, ‘Edition 1 of 1’ has been laser etched on the back surface of the iPad and the interior surface of the ‘Smart Cover.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Lot 303 of the April 28th auction is going to bring a pretty penny (currently estimated £10,000 – 15,000 ) for the Design Museum.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]