Tom Dixon Industry – Flash Factory, Milan 2010

10 March 2010

Tom Dixon launches a new collection entitled Industry at Superstudio Piu as part of the Milan Design Week 2010.

What would normally be a static trade show booth will be transformed into a Flash Factory where the process of industrial production will be brought to the customer. A digitally manufactured brass lamp will be available either flat-packed to the size of an envelope or assembled on site by the Tom Dixon team.

Jack

The installation aims to demonstrate new found power of the designer, as a digital manufacturer, able to access world markets with fresh products in previously unimaginable time scales.

Peg

The new products include Void, a mysterious lighting object with a double wall spun construction available in solid copper, brass or stainless steel. Peg, a supremely adaptable, unusually efficient solid wood stackable café chair. The long awaited return of Jack, the polyethylene 'sitting, stacking, lighting thing' back in its natural home with the motto: it's back – it also comes in black and it stacks. Offcut Bench, using the rough part of a log which is typically discarded in wood production to give each piece unique character, it is flat packed and can be assembled without any additional screws or glue.

Offcut Bench

Tom Dixon at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010:
14-19 April, 10am – 9 pm (13 April, 3 – 8 pm press preview)
Stand 12, Superstudio Piu
Via Tortona 27, Milan

Tom Dixon Road Show
The Milan modular exhibition system will embark on a road trip immediately after Milan Salone Del Mobile. Bringing the new collection direct to the global consumer, the Road Show will tour eight European cities during the course of the year.

The concept will start in Paris and finish in Vienna participating in IMM Cologne and London Design Festival amongst other exhibitions en route.

Collaborating with Formica, market leaders in interior surface materials, the stand will feature a unique, interchangeable modular system using Formica product samples that can be easily transported, constructed and adapted to suit the various locations of the Road Show.

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Tom Dixon and Philips, Flat Lamp
Tom Dixon goes 3D
Tom Dixon, homepage
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