After last year's installation, where he unveiled TWENTY at Palazzo Serbelloni, this year, Tom Dixon will be back with a bang with extraordinary new collections that will all reflect this year's theme of 'CHOICE'. Tom says: "This year we want MORE. Much Much More. More colour, variations, and unexpected combinations in floor lamps and chandeliers, table tops and textiles give our design aficionados a deeper, wider palette of opportunity to help build perfect interiors. More flexibility in where we can illuminate and how we design, so that's why we call this year CHOICE. The essential skill in the construction of special spaces requires judicial choices. So, we worked and worked to open up the collection to this unexpectedly vast series of possibilities." The new collections of Tom Dixon lamps, showing for the first time at Euroluce, will include new PUFF pendants and chandeliers, PORTABLES lights inspired by the iconic MELT, BELL and STONE designs and CONE, along with best-selling upholstery pieces FAT and WINGBACK, now available in hundreds of colours and textiles.
"After 3 years of continuous uncertainty, volatility and economic hardship brought by COVID, we're going back to our original roots, focusing on creativity, innovation, and... CHOICE. Our idea behind our new CHOICE campaign is to give the market a glimpse of light and inspire the world to play and be creative again. Our team has worked hard to create a robust supply chain that can offer unprecedented possibilities and combinations that we can deliver to the market in record speed," said Hoegstedt says, Tom Dixon's CEO.
Inspired by inflatable geometry, PUFF is an intricate polyhedral object from new collections of Tom Dixon lamps: luminous object made of 30 metal panels arrayed to form the rigid structure of a 45cm diameter lamp. "The flat metal diamond shapes are expanded and ballooned as though they have been inflated thanks to the cunning incised pattern that allows a soft curve to be introduced and light to be emitted", Tom explains.
Tom Dixon Lamps - Photo Credit Pete Navey
Tom Dixon also launches a brand-new category of lights: the PORTABLES. Poised to become a must-have with design aficionados across the world, this Tom Dixon lamps of rechargeable lights are super expressive, skillfully engineered and highly compact in size. The new collection includes MELT, STONE and BELL. PORTABLES are like little companions paving the way to illuminate traditionally challenging spaces both indoors and outdoors. Tom says: "No longer do we want to be tethered to a fixed desk or power outlet, so increasingly we want our light to move with us - thankfully the magic of technology has come to the rescue with powerful batteries and low energy light sources combined to allow us to illuminate wherever we choose with complete adaptability -and it's for this reason we have loved working on our PORTABLES series."
A brand-new pedestal that can be mixed and matched with 28 of Tom Dixon shades including MELT and MIRROR BALL. Tom explains about the new floor lamp: 'There is a reason that we keep coming back to simple geometries - these basic shapes feel right because they are the most reduced possibility for a given job, and this is particularly evident with our new series of conical lamp bases CONE. After many attempts at designing the optimum floor lamp base, this minimal resolution is the culmination of our efforts. A perfectly executed metal cone becomes the most appropriate and elegant pedestal to support and enhance a multitude of different luminous possibilities from our range of polycarbonate lampshades.'
Tom Dixon, MELT CONE Floor - Photo Credit Pete Navey
In addition to the Euroluce showcase, Tom Dixon will present some new collections, including PUFF and the new PORTABLES, at its Milanese hub 'The Manzoni' Via Alessandro Manzoni. A VIP party, powered by champagne brand Lallier, has already been confirmed on Tuesday 18th April.
Tom Dixon, BELL Portable - Photo Credit Pete Navey
Tom Dixon - Photo Credit Pete Navey
Tom Dixon, Portable Lamp - Photo Credit Pete Navey
Tom Dixon, Globe Cone Slim - Photo Credit Pete Navey
Tom Dixon, PUFF Pendant - Photo Credit Pete Navey