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Lighting Sep 23, 2020

LDF 2020: A Look At Tom Dixon’s Octagon Exhibition

During London Design Festival 2020, Tom Dixon Studio took part in 9 days of virtual and physical events at their London HQ, the Coal Office. The studio’s theme for this year’s festival was OCTAGON, which represents the multifaceted and constantly evolving nature of the British brand.

The Coal Office was transformed into 8 different architectural spaces and each area was defined by this year’s hero collections. A Pop-up bar, 2 Lounges, a Disco, a Perfumery Lab, a MASS Gallery, a Pattern Masterclass Exhibition and an S-chair ‘Museum’ were on display. OCTAGON included a series of digital and physical talks, workshops and events open to the public, with some events by-invitation only.

OCTAGON was an opportunity for journalists, customers and design aficionados from all over the world to discover the refreshed Coal Office space and to see the new collections on display for the first time since their launch. King’s Cross again was an official LDF Design District and one of the top destinations to visit during the festival.

The OCTAGON exhibition included:

1. PUCKERY

To celebrate the latest cocktail glassware collection, the Gallery was transformed into the PUCKERY, a pop-up bar displaying the full PUCK range in a striking display. The new MILL salt and pepper grinders also formed part of the display. The PUCK collection includes cocktail, wine, champagne, and shot glasses, as well as an ice bucket.

2. FAT CLUB

The FAT CLUB is an extremely tactile, soft and comfortable space where visitors were invited to relax, recline and slow down on the FAT furniture range. The FAT collection, one of their best-selling families, is upholstered in Scottish textiles house Bute Fabric’s ranges and luxury Danish house Sørensen’s leather. Illuminating the lounge is CODE, an innovative LED track system we created in partnership with Austrian architectural lighting specialists, Prolicht. The partnership with Prolicht elevates Tom Dixon’s position in the LED world and combines highly technical skills with a decorative aesthetic.

3. DISCO

King’s Cross’s history as an area rich in music and nightlife in the mid-90’s combined with Tom’s experience in working and promoting nightclubs tie into the narrative of the DISCO. The DISCO features an extraordinary display of the latest innovations in LED lighting. Highly reflective and dramatic in size, BURST is the latest LED chandelier which includes 12 polycarbonate shades exploding from a central construction point. MELT surface lights and GLOBE pendants also feature in the visually impactful display and act as a backdrop to Spiritland’s elaborate speakers. Playlists designed by Spiritland set the tone for the DISCO with BURST programmed and animated to the music. Enhancing the acoustics of the DISCO is the new carbon-negative CORK collection. CORK is a unique set of sculptural furniture with expressive minimalist attributes and superior functionality.

4. PERFUMERY

Scents: intangibles that can be just as important in interior-design as colour, luminosity, and shape. Often, the most potent first impression and subsequent memory of a space can be its smell.
In the Perfumery Arch in the shop, the new FOG incense giftsets and ECLECTIC vessels were on display for a journey through Tom Dixon’s fragrance explorations. The brand first launched its fragrance range in 2012 to immediate success, and this year the collection has expanded to include an incense giftset and a new fragrance available in the SWIRL vessels.

5. SPIRAL LOUNGE

The SPIRAL LOUNGE features a kinetic installation of new SPRING Silver pendants. SPRING launched last year in Milan at the Manzoni during Salone del Mobile and quickly became a hit with customers and design aficionados. For LDF, the new silver finish was on display in an installation representing the flexibility, functionality and playfulness of the product and experiments with movement, shadows, and light play.

6. S CHAIR MUSEUM

The Extraordinary Arch displays the evolution of the renowned S Chair, which is celebrating its 30-year anniversary. Resembling a museum, the arch showcases Tom’s early designs of the S Chair for Cappellini and different variations over the years; ranging from an S Chair upholstered in rubber, an S Chair upholstered in sheep skin, to a bull-rush woven S chair. The museum demonstrates the longevity of Tom Dixon’s design and how it remains relevant and significant today.

7. ELEMENTARY MASS

ELEMENTARY is a gallery exhibition dedicated to the new solid brass MASS collection. A family of super polished and extraordinary products designed and manufactured in the UK and made from one single extruded box section of brass. The MASS Console Table, Coat Stand and Light previewed for the first time during LDF.

8. PATTERN MASTERCLASS

Here we find an investigation into natural pattern formations versus man-made processes in the design industry. New collections PRIMAVERA marble table-tops and SWIRL furniture and accessories are on display. Since its launch last year, SWIRL has quickly become one of the brand’s most acclaimed accessory collections. The unique process involves recycling the powdered residue from the marble industry, mixed with pigment and resin to create blocks of material that can then be sawn, sliced and turned on a lathe.

Tom Dixon is available from Province Lighting.


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