Tom Dixon celebrates twenty years of material curiosity | News | Architonic
Talking to Tom Dixon is a lesson in not standing still. Not as a designer, not as a businessman, not as an interviewee, nor interviewer. We meet at the showcase of his exhibition TWENTY during London Design Week in September, and review the anniversary display of experiments dotted around his Coal Office complex. It turns out that the marking of a milestone – in this case twenty years since the eponymous brand was formed – is as daunting to the busy designer as it is to an anniversary-jaded journalist. But after mulling, Dixon decided to grab the opportunity to reflect, review, rework and reimagine projects and processes for the future. And for my part, I soon saw the chance to gather some hard-earned industry wisdom.
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