Q&A Alongside Tom Dixon At Ids Vancouver
Friday 23 September 2016
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We sat downwards 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 well-nigh his collaborations, inspiration as well as his thoughts on the public blueprint community. Here's our transcribed interview.
Q: The Fire Kitchen is ane of the iv kitchens y'all had showcased inwards Milan before this year. if y'all tin tell me where your inspiration came from.
A: Well typically it started out inwards a dissimilar house than where it ended upwards inwards terms of inspiration. Initially they asked me to do iv dissimilar kitchen shows each inwards dissimilar territories, ane inwards Las Vegas, ane was inwards New York, as well as ane I mean value inwards State of Israel as well as thus I simply started reflecting on cooking methods inwards those dissimilar places as well as thus the divergence of this specific ane (the Fire Kitchen), was America as well as it's barbeque's. My vision of America is people standing simply about the barbeque as well as besides no distinction betwixt the cooking as well as the eating, to a greater extent than sort of similar people milling simply about the hole procedure as well as that's what this is, a kitchen amongst no sides. It's non made to survive upwards against the wall, it's designed for walking around.
The (four) kitchens would all receive got these dissimilar cooking methods as well as the thought was that
they then would all terminate upwards inwards Milan as well as I came upwards amongst the thought that it would as well as then survive a eating spot where you, instead of sitting at ane tabular array for the remainder of the night, which I larn real bored at those sort of dinners that y'all perish to, is that people would rotate every course of didactics into a dissimilar kitchen as well as survive involved, engaged inwards the whole process.
And as well as then the concluding inspiration came from when I started to split out the iv qualities of these kitchens as well as that's where I started thinking well-nigh the elements, making the iv kitchens every bit distinct every bit possible, the cooking methods, colouring as well as simply full general aesthetic; the elements (earth, air, burn as well as water) simply seemed similar a practiced means to go. So basically what you're seeing hither at IDSVancouver is ane business office of the kitchen (fire).
A. The collaboration is on something to a greater extent than similar a bed, as well as this was my thought mainly because nosotros would never survive able to do beds, y'all know, it's a real specific typology of furniture. There's lots of sizing issues, etc., thus we've never actually touched beds, as well as it's actually the exclusively esssential slice of slice of furniture y'all demand really. So the thought behind this bed is to survive able to hack as well as larn inwards adaptable to dissimilar designs every bit y'all grow/change thus my objective is to receive got this platform that I tin add together bits on as well as people tin larn inwards their own. Sort of similar a hacking projection is to a greater extent than the objective. It's got adaptability as well as that it's non disposable as well as y'all simply accept it through your life as well as adjust it every bit y'all alter your living laid up.
Q. Tom Dixon has ii novel locations (your kickoff retail presence) inwards Los Angeles, CA as well as a larger-scale showroom on Howard Street inwards NYC’s SoHo neighbourhood. Any plans to convey a retail presence to Canada?
I don't mean value 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 survive a chip bigger as well as where people tin collaborate, a professional person environs for architects as well as interior designers but besides an total of retail which makes it constantly refreshing as well as thus I'm non certain well-nigh bringing retail to Canada, but I never tell never, but I don't receive got whatsoever specific computer programme for retail inwards Canada yet.
Q. What are your thoughts on the futurity of blueprint as well as community?
A. What has happened betwixt when I started as well as amongst immature designers or whatsoever designers right away is that y'all receive got this sort of song community which is inter-linked as well as access to non exclusively manufacturing methods but distribution which would've been virtually impossible for ane to access y'all know, 20 years ago, right? So the community has perish a sort of global community —that people percentage which tin survive quite a small-scale as well as specific taste, which I mean value is great, thus there's a actually interesting novel public developing, which is a serial of people amongst like-minded interests which could survive technology, ecology, whatever that tin commune inwards a much bigger means because it's amplified yesteryear the might of digital. So if I wanted to launch a production 20 years agone I'd receive got to purchase stamps, brand an invitation, as well as that community would survive tiny as well as real local physically/geographically, whereas right away I tin launch something online to the whole public at the same time, talking to someone on the other side of the public yesteryear alive feed as well as it tin terms literally nothing. So I mean value the community becomes real dissimilar as well as to a greater extent than abstract but there's definitely a much lower barrier to starting something for designers now.
I mean value besides the reality for immature designers, there's thus many of them now, is there's a lot of operate to survive done for blueprint actually closed to abode every bit well. And I mean value blueprint is thought that y'all receive got to perish to a large company, as well as making things that way, but I mean value that there's every chance right away for people to survive to a greater extent than effective locally because they tin besides receive got much closer access to manufacturing whether that's physically closed or because they tin 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 simply similar inwards the music business, y'all don't demand to perish to a 48 rails tape studio as well as receive got a tape companionship anymore y'all tin simply do it on your reckoner at abode as well as distribute it online, same affair is happening amongst design, y'all digital methods of manufacturing right away are transportable from the people to role on their laptops, as well as where machines that used to survive actually huge where y'all had to brand tens of thousands of the same affair are right away much to a greater extent than flexible where y'all tin brand small-scale batches, as well as it's a actually interesting public emerging.
Q. When nosotros mean value of Tom Dixon, dark as well as moody comes to hear amongst all your blacks as well as coppers. And amongst that inwards mind, what are y'all gravitating towards inwards the futurity of your blueprint amongst honour to surfaces, metals, etc., what is making y'all excited correct right away amongst honour to design?
A. Well y'all 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 low-cal industrial sort of chemical factor aesthetic that is coming through at the 2d that we'll exhibit inwards Cologne inwards October.
I'm non e'er moody, I tin survive luminous.
Thank y'all Tom! Check out Tom Dixon at his Fire Kitchen inwards collaboration amongst Caesarstone at IDS Vancouver this weekend at the Trade as well as Convention Centre hither inwards Vancouver.