Description
Tom Dixon brings a stylish assist to the bar or tabletop with Puck, his decanter with a thick base suggested by hockey game play. With an accompanying stopper, the vessel is made of mouth-blown glass with a hint of a smoky hue. Like the companion range — a drinkware series that includes water, flute, cocktail, highball and shot glasses (also at A+ R) — it's a minimalist but brawny take on bar essentials that is resilient enough to survive in professional environs.
Specifications
Size
10" h x 3.5" dia (25.3x9cm)
Material
Glass
Details
Made in Poland
Brand
Tom Dixon
“If there are rules to design, I don’t know what they are,” declares self-taught Tom Dixon. This Tunisian-born Brit started out with stints painting cartoons, as a printer, then bass player in a disco-funk outfit. But it was honing his welding skills in an auto body repair shop that led to a design breakthrough, the now revered S Chair for Cappellini. From there, after several years helming design at the iconic Habitat during its prime years, he established his eponymous brand in 2002 and with it a body of near-unrivaled work.
Tom Dixon is synonymous with the idiosyncratic sensibilities that inform so much of British aesthetics, yet by a beat all his own. He challenges with his use of materials in unexpected applications, and reworkings of otherwise conventional classics into elegant gems. His remarkable creative output covers a wide swath of categories, among them at A+R, his lighting, furniture, décor, tabletop and barware. Tom also manages to extend his exhaustive vision to hotels, restaurants—including his own at this wonderful campus at the Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross—and the odd home. For good reason this OBE’s design work now resides in the collections of the V&A, MoMA and the Pompidou.