British lighting and furniture company Tom Dixon launches
a
new collection entitled Industry at Super Studio Più as part
of
Milan Design Week 2010.
What would normally be a static trade show booth will be
transformed into a Flash Factory where the process of
industrial production will be brought directly to the
customer.
A digitally manufactured brass lamp will be available
either
flat-packed to the size of an envelope or assembled on site
by the Tom Dixon team.
The installation aims to demonstrate new found power of
the
designer, as a digital manufacturer, able to access world
markets with
fresh products in previously unimaginable time scales
New products include Void, a mysterious lighting object
with a heatproof double wall
spun construction available in solid copper , brass or
stainless steel. Peg, a supremely adaptable, unusually
efficient solid wood stackable café chair. The long awaited
return
of Jack, the polyethylene ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’
now back in its natural home
with the motto: it’s back -it also comes in black and it
stacks. Offcut Bench, using the rough
part of a log which is typically discarded in wood
production to give each piece unique
character, it is flat packed and can be assembled without
any additional screws or glue.
World leading electronics company Philips have
collaborated with Tom Dixon, to
develop ‘Flat Lamp’, a unique collection of OLED light bulbs.
A complete first in the next
generation of illumination, this light source is expected to
replace low energy,
incandescent and conventional LED bulbs in most domestic
applications within the next
few years. Flat Lamp launches globally in an exclusive pre-
production batch in strip,
square and round shapes.
Industry: a new collection by Tom Dixon
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- Elena Sommariva
- 16 February 2010