ABOUT Tom Dixon

A cosmopolitan, self-taught designer, with a spirit that is mid-way between manager, craftsman and inventor; he is passionate about the decorative potential of recycled materials, which he transforms in his workshop and which is what has made him famous.
Tom Dixon was bornon May 21, 1959 in Sfax, Tunisia. In 1963, his family moved to England. After high school Dixon attended the Chelsea School of Art. At the beginning of the 1980s he began to produce chairs welded together out of everyday items he had salvaged – with rapidly growing success. He established the “Tom Dixon” brand in 2002. 
His work has joined collections in museums such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the MoMa in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.