Tom Dixon Marble

A true pioneer of design where tom dixon innovates others follow.

Tom dixon marble.

Relentlessly innovative and incomparably creative self taught designer tom dixon is a leading figure of the design industry. We design develop and sell extraordinary objects and spaces for everyday use. The latest chapter of tom s design journey began in 2002 when he left corporate life to create his own eponymous brand as a platform for a series of new adventures in the design of products and interiors. Tom is a restless innovator who works mainly in lighting accessories and furniture.

This is industrial design as art. Sculpturally formed and opulently finished his stunning range of furniture lighting and homewares is truly captivating. From his departure point in the early eighties welding salvaged steel into radical furniture he has constantly reinvented himself through a series of different design lives. The swirl collection takes the powdered residue from the marble industry and mixes it with resin and pigment to create sculptures or more specifically in this case stepped bookends which have a marvellously marble esque swirling finish.

Marble doesn t need a lot of design to make it an extraordinary object. Stone table lamp in morwad marble by tom dixon. 17 years on tom dixon is now a widely celebrated global force in interior design with our own hubs in new york. A play on our original stone spice grinder this table light comprises a halo hollowed from white morwad marble mounted on a tube with a central floating ball in the form of a brass tipped bulb.

Which isn t very surprising since we re dealing with tom dixon. The pure mass and weight combined with the psychedelic patterns that come from millions of years of geological compression only need the minimum of shaping and detail to make into an attractive object tom dixon. Which isn t very surprising since we re dealing with tom dixon.