On my way out of the food hall, I got totally lost, just like the nefarious store designer intended. I adamantly refused to buy anything extra but did find myself in the interiors section. The Tom Dixon concession looked good enough to move into. When I become a millionaire International Woman/ female version of Tyler Brule, I am going to have a lot of those copper lampshades.
Tom Dixon started his design career off welding motorbike frames and started out by cutting his suit to fit his cloth:
Working in the early 1980s could have been a dispiriting experience if I had known any better, but I was blissfully unaware and tried a variety of means of getting (my work) to market, driven mainly by necessity or naive optimism. If I knew as much as I do now, I almost certainly would not have bothered. I explored a variety of affordable techniques for self-production and usually designed to fit a new machine tool I had bought, a new stock of cheap available raw material, or to fit a local subcontractor’s skills. Source
Tom Dixon is a man who can appreciate copper piping and road safety flouro orange and can turn them into exquisite consumer products.He champions affordable design and British manufacturing. He also takes inspiration from all manner of unexpected places. He lives the George Lois saying, "Creativity is not created, it is there for us to find. It is an act of discovery."
My dad, who does a deeply practical and unglamorous job in the plastics industry, ended up working with him a couple of years ago when he decided to fill Trafalgar Square with expanded polystyrene chairs that the good people of London could take home with them.
One day when I have more space, I'll make like Door Sixteen and fill unoccupied spaces with his off-cut furniture.
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