Twenty years is a long time to be maintaining an eponymous brand, so it is fitting that Tom Dixon's 20th anniversary exhibition in conjunction with this year's Salone del Mobile was hosted in not one, but two, venues.
While Palazzo Serbelloni hosted the recently concluded Twenty exhibition, The Manzoni, the brand's Milan hub since 2019, was used as a business center by its international sales teams.
The whole range of Tom Dixon's designs was on display - including 20 previously unseen creations. Highlights included a gigantic Melt dichroic chandelier, a Bird chair made of eelgrass from Denmark, a latex S-chair and giant mycelium sculptures.
Dixon said of the showstopping Melt chandelier: "Dichroic finish has always fascinated me. The emergence of modern dichroic thin film filters, which split white light into its component colors, is the work of the engine of extreme innovation, NASA.
"So, when we looked at updating Melt - our most successful light - rather than offering a new shape, a new size, or a new color, we decided to instead filter the light with a dichroic filter. The effect of the coated component is to channel the light of our powerful LED driver into constituent parts of the spectrum, giving the already crazed internal reflection an additional chromatic boost and space age aesthetic to this otherworldly lamp."
The Twenty Salone exhibition officially kicked off a year of celebration for Tom Dixon. Other key events` to will follow include a similar exhibition for London Design Festival, as well as brand activations in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai. Limited-edition accessories will also be launched this summer to celebrate the anniversary.
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