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Tom Dixon just can’t sit still. The award-winning, self-taught maverick British designer-businessman is easily bored and always searching for his next new project. “My observation is that in the modern world, a brand is no longer a fixed, enclosed unit,” he says. Writer Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE finds out what keeps him experimenting and how he thinks the furniture industry has – or has not – evolved.

Tom Dixon lives in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction with his body of work. This pushes him to keep on going and trying new things. “I can’t even look at anything without thinking I could have done slightly better. It’s not because the thing is bad but because I know more.

As I didn’t have formal training nor a certificate to say I was allowed to do what I do, every day is still magical,especially as it was never

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