Contemporary Design 
18 September 2024
Contemporary Design 
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Tom Dixon

Executive chair

United Kingdom, 1984
welded steel, rebar, rubber 39¾ h × 19¾ w × 21½ d in (101 × 50 × 55 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $7,560
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This example is unique.
provenance: Private Collection
exhibited: Accidents Will Happen: Creative Salvage, 1981-1991, 13 January - 12 February 2022, Friedman Benda, New York

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I’m slightly more instinctive than cerebral in that way. Doing design—instead of art or sculpture—gives you a formal framework. It’s expected to have a degree of function, and I feel more comfortable with a certain restriction. It’s got to hold you up, it’s got to pour, it’s got to illuminate.

Tom Dixon

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