Nov 22nd 2013, 15:45, by Jacob Kastrenakes
After nearly two years in the making, a charity auction orchestrated by Jony Ive, Bono, and designer Marc Newson is set to begin this Saturday. While Apple has worked with Bono's Product Red charity in the past, Saturday's auction takes Ive's involvement much further: working with Newson, the two curated and customized over 40 different items, from chairs, to cars, to Apple products, all of which will go up for sale.
The auction is being run by Sotheby's, and is expected to raise over $2 million toward battling AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. "Red is making a difference in the lives of millions of people and we're humbled to make this contribution to such an important and worthy cause," Ive says in a statement.
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