The secrets of one bowl
It's been more than 20 years since Tom Dixon had to weld his broken motorcycle and he liked it so much,
that he has decided to continue welding anyway. And this brought things so interesting that he entered
like a storm the world of design, and for 15 years has been running a label under his own brand.
Tom Dixon does not limit himself to metal, of course, but as an eccentric (who has grown up
from the British punk), he uses every material that would inspire him. As he used to pay significant
attention to the design of lighting, he became interested in the use of glass quite quickly.
The mysterious, domesticated bowl Warp Bowl small comes from a series of unconventional
and stylish designs of various materials that can be found, for example, in a car workshop.
These are the objects that draw attention and do not allow pass indifferenty.
Each bowl is a mouth blown cylinder or semi-sphere, distorted, squashed and deformed whilst the glass is in a molten state. The mysterious iridescent finish is then applied by hand and the vessel re-fired at high temperature.
As a result, we get a bowl of intriguing, irregular shape and an even more intriguing surface
that reflects and refracts light from the lustre glaze, an effect familiar from a petrol spill on a wet day
or a hummingbird's wing. Both visions are close to the point, as the purpose of Tom Dixon's work
is to create various associations and to encourage reflection. The bowl reminds about ecology, but not only.
Eentering into a dialogue with the surroundings, it encourages our own exploration while serving
very practical purposes.
