The theme of the Tom Dixon roadshow for Milan design week is, very sensibly, ‘Utility’.  A quality captured utterly in the heavy duty, no nonsense aesthetic of the London-based designer’s collection 2009/2010, now previewing online ahead of I Saloni in April.  

I’m an always more ardent fan of Tom Dixon’s work since seeing his Zona Tortona Superstudio Piu’ show first hand in Milan last year.  Dixon does the very English cool, clever, gorgeous, practical thing better than anyone and the design world’s growing appetite for a new refined frugality should play right into this Brit’s very talented hands.