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Tom Dixon launches Utility

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Posted on December 18th 2009

British lighting and furniture design maverick Tom Dixon have once again taken steps in innovation with their latest collection, Utility.


British lighting and furniture design maverick Tom Dixon has once again taken steps in innovation with the launch of the latest collection, Utility. The collection breaks traditional boundaries of design by using materials such as heavyweight, extra-thick pressed glass and pseudo-enamel vessels in bold geometric shapes.

The collection gives attention to the ideas of longevity, substance and materiality. Each piece maintains Dixon’s brand ideal inspired by individualist innovation and robust, honest design. The geometrically shaped Enamel Vessels are produced out of cast iron and sprayed with glass powder to create a translucent-enamel effect. The Bead and Top pendant lights, inspired by molten spheres of glass, highlight the honesty of design by bearing marks of the industrial manufacturing process.

The range exemplifies the Dixon brand of no-nonsense design, while sustaining product functionality through each artistically-design piece.

Tom Dixon

Born in Tunisia, Tom Dixon moved to England in 1963. Educated in London, he dropped out of Chelsea School of Art to play bass in the band Funkapolitan before teaching himself welding after a motorcycle accident.

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