More on Tom Dixon, who was in NYT’s T Style Magazine recently. Three quotes from that article: 1) “’The Great Chair Grab was a think-through of how old-fashioned and lame the furniture business had become,’ Dixon says, unspooling his long frame over a chair in his central London studio. ‘What if furniture could be a modern business the way Google is?’” 2) “If this marriage of the free and the expensive, populism and elitism (with subversive undercurrents of wealth redistribution) were not appealing enough to the designer, Dixon has also been happily rewarded by eliminating the middleman. The freebie program has proved that it is possible to circumvent problems of distribution that often thwart all but the most established design firms.” 3) “After taking a one-day course on plastic bumper repair, he learned to weld—initially to fix his old cars and motorbikes, but soon to create one-off pieces of furniture from industrial detritus, from hubcaps to woks. ‘There’s pleasure in making something in the morning and selling it in the evening,’ he says. ‘Like alchemy—turning rubbish into gold.’”