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BACKGROUND

From Performance Artist to Star Designer,Tom Dixon is arguably the only designer

who is as taken with the warm shine of brass, bronze, and copper, and these

tones. Anyone who believes Tom Dixon's lighting and furniture designs are only

suitable for lavish interiors and sparkling luxury worlds is mistaken. His products

are timeless classics due to their simple, plain shapes, which may be assembled

in a variety of ways. The Copper Lamp is a prime example of a timeless design and

pièce de résistance.

EDUCATION

Holland Park, a co-educational NE W F OUND PASSION

secondary schoo. While on tour, he started welding live on

It was at the time a faily rough school stage as a performance art. Thing took

famous for kids going wild and the a turn when he broke his arm in a
Tom Dix on wasn,t a adiqate amount of teaching motorbike accident, which privented him

A KA beeing delivered but had a fantastic from going on tour with his band.
He seamlessly transitioned back in to
art department, which is where he
‘ ’Cr e ativ e Ruffian ’ ’
spent the better part of his days. persuing Design,which was precipitated

Tom, found his refuge in Ceramics, by an accident thus, ‘Accidental Designer’.

this opened him to the transformational

nature of Design. He saw welding as a compelling Art, he

pharses it as ‘ one of those techniques that

Tom spent 6ix months at the Chelsea doesn’t require huge amount of skill but

School of Art, which proved furtile, allows you to make things that are quite

he left and persued a career in music. strong very fast’.

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