Pylon Chair

Pylon was an experimental piece produced by Tom Dixon in his metal workshop in the early ‘90s, after “making and remaking it several times,” he fondly told The Guardian some years later. The lattice work chair made of 3mm diameter steel rod is triangulated for maximum strength as an exercise in pure unadorned structure. Now revived by the designer, it’s part of a group of semi-transparent and lightweight occasional pieces that Tom says made him “believe more in the underlying structure of an object rather than in their surfaces.”