Tom Dixon: Metalhead
Themes & Variations, 231 Westbourne Grove, W11
22 November 2023 – 13 January 2024
Designer Tom Dixon has had an illustrious 40-year career that has seen his furniture and lighting become ubiquitous in restaurants and hotels the world over. But his early work had a decidedly more punk aesthetic, as his retrospective – Tom Dixon: Metalhead – at Themes & Variations can attest.
In 1987, the gallery showed a series of welded metal chairs fashioned from scavenged objects by the young, up-and-coming designer. They featured everything from kitchen frying pans and bicycle forks to street railings. These delightful mash-ups star alongside some of his greatest hits and new works in metal that tap back into this experimental spirit, while revelling in the handmade. Come along and pull up a pew.
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