Q&A Amongst Tom Dixon At Ids Vancouver
We sat downward amongst world-renowned designer, Tom Dixon at his Fire Kitchen inwards collaboration amongst Caesarstone before the political party opening nighttime at IDS Vancouver and asked him a few questions almost his collaborations, inspiration in addition to his thoughts on the public blueprint community. Here's our transcribed interview.
Q: The Fire Kitchen is i of the iv kitchens you lot had showcased inwards Milan before this year. if you lot tin lav tell me where your inspiration came from.
A: Well typically it started out inwards a dissimilar house than where it ended upwardly inwards terms of inspiration. Initially they asked me to practise iv dissimilar kitchen shows each inwards dissimilar territories, i inwards Las Vegas, i was inwards New York, in addition to i I intend inwards State of Israel in addition to therefore I but started reflecting on cooking methods inwards those dissimilar places in addition to therefore the divergence of this specific i (the Fire Kitchen), was America in addition to it's barbeque's. My vision of America is people standing around the barbeque in addition to too no distinction betwixt the cooking in addition to the eating, to a greater extent than form of similar people milling around the hole procedure in addition to that's what this is, a kitchen amongst no sides. It's non made to live on upwardly against the wall, it's designed for walking around.
The (four) kitchens would all receive got these dissimilar cooking methods in addition to the thought was that
they then would all terminate upwardly inwards Milan in addition to I came upwardly amongst the thought that it would therefore live on a eatery where you, instead of sitting at i tabular array for the residue of the night, which I larn really bored at those form of dinners that you lot move to, is that people would rotate every course of report into a dissimilar kitchen in addition to live on involved, engaged inwards the whole process.
And therefore the terminal inspiration came from when I started to divide out the iv qualities of these kitchens in addition to that's where I started thinking almost the elements, making the iv kitchens every bit distinct every bit possible, the cooking methods, colouring in addition to but full general aesthetic; the elements (earth, air, burn downward in addition to water) but seemed similar a expert means to go. So basically what you're seeing hither at IDSVancouver is i business office of the kitchen (fire).
A. The collaboration is on something to a greater extent than similar a bed, in addition to this was my thought mainly because nosotros would never live on able to practise beds, you lot know, it's a really specific typology of furniture. There's lots of sizing issues, etc., therefore we've never actually touched beds, in addition to it's actually the exclusively esssential slice of article of furniture you lot demand really. So the thought behind this bed is to live on able to hack in addition to larn inwards adaptable to dissimilar designs every bit you lot grow/change therefore my objective is to receive got this platform that I tin lav add together bits on in addition to people tin lav larn inwards their own. Sort of similar a hacking projection is to a greater extent than the objective. It's got adaptability in addition to that it's non disposable in addition to you lot but receive got it through your life in addition to accommodate it every bit you lot modify your living laid up.
Q. Tom Dixon has two novel locations (your showtime retail presence) inwards Los Angeles, CA in addition to a larger-scale showroom on Howard Street inwards NYC’s SoHo neighbourhood. Any plans to convey a retail presence to Canada?
I don't intend we're actually that interested inwards entering into vast amounts of retail amongst shops everywhere, we're interested inwards having regional centers where which would live on a chip bigger in addition to where people tin lav collaborate, a professional person environs for architects in addition to interior designers but too an total of retail which makes it constantly refreshing in addition to therefore I'm non certain almost bringing retail to Canada, but I never country never, but I don't receive got whatever specific computer program for retail inwards Canada yet.
Q. What are your thoughts on the futurity of blueprint in addition to community?
A. What has happened betwixt when I started in addition to amongst immature designers or whatever designers right away is that you lot receive got this form of song community which is inter-linked in addition to access to non exclusively manufacturing methods but distribution which would've been virtually impossible for i to access you lot know, xx years ago, right? So the community has move a sort of global community —that people portion which tin lav live on quite a small-scale in addition to specific taste, which I intend is great, therefore there's a actually interesting novel public developing, which is a serial of people amongst like-minded interests which could live on technology, ecology, whatever that tin lav commune inwards a much bigger means because it's amplified past times the mightiness of digital. So if I wanted to launch a production 20 years agone I'd receive got to purchase stamps, brand an invitation, in addition to that community would live on tiny in addition to really local physically/geographically, whereas right away I tin lav launch something online to the whole public at the same time, talking to someone on the other side of the public past times alive feed in addition to it tin lav terms literally nothing. So I intend the community becomes really dissimilar in addition to to a greater extent than abstract but there's definitely a much lower barrier to starting something for designers now.
I intend too the reality for immature designers, there's therefore many of them now, is there's a lot of piece of occupation to live on done for blueprint actually unopen to domicile every bit well. And I intend blueprint is thought that you lot receive got to move to a large company, in addition to making things that way, but I intend that there's every chance right away for people to live on to a greater extent than effective locally because they tin lav too receive got much closer access to manufacturing whether that's physically unopen or because they tin lav communicate to a greater extent than easily communicate amongst manufacturers/shippers to a greater extent than easily than before. And there's a to a greater extent than personal blueprint emerging every bit but similar inwards the music business, you lot don't demand to move to a 48 rail tape studio in addition to receive got a tape fellowship anymore you lot tin lav but practise it on your figurer at domicile in addition to distribute it online, same affair is happening amongst design, you lot digital methods of manufacturing right away are transportable from the people to operate on their laptops, in addition to where machines that used to live on actually huge where you lot had to brand tens of thousands of the same affair are right away much to a greater extent than flexible where you lot tin lav brand small-scale batches, in addition to it's a actually interesting public emerging.
Q. When nosotros intend of Tom Dixon, dark in addition to moody comes to heed amongst all your blacks in addition to coppers. And amongst that inwards mind, what are you lot gravitating towards inwards the futurity of your blueprint amongst abide by to surfaces, metals, etc., what is making you lot excited correct right away amongst abide by to design?
A. Well you lot know nosotros receive got been working a lot on slightly to a greater extent than complicated finishes which is the irridescent serial (lamps, vessels, etc.,) but there's a to a greater extent than calorie-free industrial form of chemical ingredient aesthetic that is coming through at the 2nd that we'll exhibit inwards Cologne inwards October.
I'm non e'er moody, I tin lav live on luminous.
Thank you lot Tom! Check out Tom Dixon at his Fire Kitchen inwards collaboration amongst Caesarstone at IDS Vancouver this weekend at the Trade in addition to Convention Centre hither inwards Vancouver.
