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Tom Dixon, OBE (born 21 May 1959, Sfax, Tunisia) is a self-taught British designer. He is currently the Creative Director of the brand 'Tom Dixon' specialising in Lighting, Furniture and Accessories. His work been acquired by museums across the globe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. ==Career== Tom rose to prominence in the mid 1980s as “the talented untrained designer with a line in welded salvage furniture". He set up ‘Space’ as a creative think-tank and shop front for himself and other young designers. By the late 1980s, he was working for the Italian giant Cappellini for whom he designed the Iconic ‘S’ chair. In the 1990s, he became a household name with ‘Jack’, his polythylene "sitting, stacking, lighting thing" designed for his own company ‘Eurolounge’.〔(designmuseum.org (British Council) ) Retrieved 10 May 2011〕 In 1993 he participated in the ″greatest exhibition of British furniture design of the 20th century″, organized by Helmut Diez in Bremerhaven, Germany.〔″größte Werkschau britischer Möbeldesigner des 20. Jahrhunderts″ ((Sonntagsmagazin, ARD ) 1993-05-05, KulturBuffet, N3, Gerd Röhlke, Jürgen Schöffel: ''Visions in the swim'' and VOX (features)).〕 In 1998 Tom was appointed head of design by Habitat and later became Creative Director until 2008. He was the public face of a collective team responsible for rejuvenating the Habitat brand.〔 In 2002 Dixon established his own brand under the name ‘Tom Dixon’. The company is based in Portobello, London. In 2004 Proventus, the Swedish-based private investment company, teamed up with Tom Dixon to establish Design Research, a design and product development holding company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Dixon History )〕 The Tom Dixon brand launches new collections of lighting and furniture bi-annually at the Milan international furniture fair and at London Design Festival. In 2012 the company launched its first accessories range at Maison et Objet, Paris. The company’s products are sold internationally in 65 countries. In 2007 Dixon launched Design Research Studio, an interior and architectural design studio. High profile projects include Restaurant at The Royal Academy in London ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Restaurant at The Royal Academy by Tom Dixon )〕 Jamie Oliver’s London restaurant, Barbecoa〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Restaurant: Barbecoa, St Pauls. )〕 as well as Shoreditch House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shoreditch House by Tom Dixon ) 〕 Most recently Design Research Studio announced their first ever hotel project, redesigning the iconic Thames-side Sea Containers House in collaboration with US hotel giant Morgans Hotel Group due for completion summer 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Dixon To Turn Sea Containers House Into Mondrian Hotel )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Dixon (industrial designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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