Tom Dixon updating challenges on crafting newness there is no point in making this real unless people want it

British designer Tom Dixon declares himself self-taught. In 1985, he was among the founders of the group Creative Salvage together with Mark Brazier-Jones and Nick Jones, who played in his band. In the Nineties, Dixon designed for Cappellini. In 1998, he became responsible for design and later Creative Director for Habitat. In 2002, he founded a company that bears his name, specializing in the lighting sector. Dixon received the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and was awarded as Designer of the Year at Maison & Objet in 2014.

Built in 1851 on the King’s Cross section of the Regent’s Canal, Eastern Coal Drops were imagined as an administrative and storage facility for the incoming of coal and fish supplies into London. In the 160 years since, the use of the space evolved from being a depot of a Yorkshire glass bottle company, Bagley, Wild and Company, into one of many disused warehouses in the UK capital. In the Eighties, as rave culture emerged onto