Tom Dixon on Architecture

Tom Dixon’s first piece of architecture, the Tokyo Hipsters’ Club, is a big deal in industrial design world. The legendary self-educated/trained British industrial designer who just won the prestigious Designer of the Year Award by Design Museum in London, is excited to venture into architecture. His comment on architecture is quite revealing, he said recently in an interview with magazine Pol Oxygen, “People like to pretend [architecture] is difficult. [Architects] create a sense of mystique around it but the truth is the difficult bit is the structural engineering, the boring bits are the rules and regulations, and the fun bit is creating shapes, which really isn’t all that difficult.” It is easier said than done. His THC is very much a concrete box with interesting retail design within. We will have to wait and see how easy is creating shapes for Dixon in his next project.

Dixon is currently the creative director of the hip European furniture retailer Habitat, he also co-owned the Finnish furniture company Artek (founded by Alvar Aalto in 1935).