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"Just like babies, I can’t have any favorites of my own lamps."
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"British style is always about tradition, mixed with a wicked sense of humor. When I think of British style I think of Sartorial Splendor, Savile Row ... and then I think of people who have a twisted sense of reality – you can’t look at that Gherkin Building and not have a sense of humor."
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“British style is always on this edgy side — between conservative and this interesting switch, or completely punk and edgy and hard-core.”
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“My favorite British style icon would have to be the Queen. She’s legendary, a fiction in itself, a commercial—she’s kind of everything.”
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“When I think about design in London, I think more about the communal aspects of it and how integrated the community is—the designers, their workshops, the studios, the schools, the institutions, the museums, the galleries—they all work very cohesively.”
Tom Dixon's London Underground
For New York Design Week, Tom Dixon creates his first-ever U.S. satellite show, "London Underground," in the Bleecker Street Theater basement. Surface installed a social-media broadcasting booth and is interviewing leading design talents over the weekend, including David Weeks, Matthias Hollwich, and Tom Dixon himself. Videos by Blake Martin Creative. Interviews by Spencer Bailey.
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