Essential Design 
12 January 2023
Essential Design 
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Tom Dixon

Swirl Cone candlesticks, pair

United Kingdom, 2019
marble powder, pigment, resin 8¾ h × 3¼ dia in (22 × 8 cm)
estimate: $300–500
result: $126
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Metal manufacturer's disk to underside ‘Tom Dixon London’.

This work will ship from LAMA in Los Angeles, California.

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I’m slightly more instinctive than cerebral in that way. Doing design—instead of art or sculpture—gives you a formal framework. It’s expected to have a degree of function, and I feel more comfortable with a certain restriction. It’s got to hold you up, it’s got to pour, it’s got to illuminate.

Tom Dixon

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