Tom Dixon’s Studio band ( featuring editor-in-chief of Wallpaper* Tony Chambers and ectro chaunteuse Billie Ray Martin ) played at the Rotonda dell Bessana , during the Salone
The venue was amazing and the band were a big hit !!
If You were unable to attend the Salone Milan 2016, or get along to Tom Dixon’s extraordinary product presentations and pop up Restaurant, located in the beautiful Rotonda dell Besana- then despair no more
You can now virtually visit Tom Dixon’s exciting Show and fully operating Restaurant,.
For Tom Dixon raw materials are a veritable obsession.
Marble, wood, plastic, glass, iron, brass and copper are the basic building blocks that have defined Tom Dixon’s products from the outset.
This year, Tom took a step back and looked at his biggest influence and the underpinning inspiration for what he does – his materials.
Tom Dixon opened the press launch by revealing an amusing anecdote about his Instagram observations of the design community –
He showed an image he had posted on the Tom Dixon instagram page – of Usher taking a selfie with Tom – and explained that he had expected a tsunami wave of ” Likes ” on Tom’s instagram page due to Usher having 40 + million followers. The selfie image disappointingly only received 600 ‘ likes ‘ – yet the next image posted by Tom on the Tom Dixon page showing the cuts that can be made in a tree trunk received a few thousand ‘ likes ‘
Tom concluded from this observation, that the design community is motivated by material – not celebrity ….. Hence the theme for his collections and the basis for his work.
THE RESTAURANT is a series of 4 extraordinary Caeserstone kitchens and dining halls designed by Tom Dixon, arrayed in a cruciform setting within the beautiful Baroque splendour of the Rotonda Della Besana
The four basic elements of Air, Water, Earth and Fire give each kitchen and dining hall a clear aesthetic, materiality and cooking method.
Throughout the week visitors will be encouraged to sit down, slow down and re-calibrate.
During Milan Design Week 2015, leading manufacturer of premium quartz surfaces, Caesarstone, presented ‘ Movements ’ — an interactive installation presenting an eight-piece swing-set and a collection of handmade planters, both conceived by Philippe Malouin.