Milan, 2015 … British designer Tom Dixon presented to the public industrial lamps assembled from decorative fixtures. All models are ideally combined with items from the author’s line of copper home accessories.
The collection consists of three brass-coated pendant lamps, similar in shape to the candlesticks and table organizer, exhibited by Tom Dixon in Paris a year ago. All textured elements – gear rings, helical rods and cylinders with circular grooves – are manufactured on metalworking machines.
The artist’s obsession with engines and mechanisms allows him to deeply understand the aesthetic essence of ordinary objects that often go unnoticed.
Cast aluminum parts of various sizes have turned into works of design art: one of the lamps resembles a cone sandwiched between two flat rings with teeth, the second has an unusual dome-shaped shape, the third is assembled from three cylindrical elements of various sizes and patterns.
Light bulbs are hidden in miniature shades that direct their light downward.
Tom Dixon organized an exposition as part of an exhibition called Cinema, which was organized in one of the abandoned cinemas in Milan.
