Tom Dixon’s striking creations for Danish brand Ege Carpets are located at the very intersection between painting and installation, where the boundaries between fine art and design blur.

Leading British designer Tom Dixon, whose works can be found in permanent collections of museums such as V & A and MoMA, is known world-over for his furniture and lighting designs, and now carpets.

The designer first worked with Danish carpet design and manufacturers ege carpets to create a carpeted ceiling tinged with a water color-inspired motif for client, Craft (London), a restaurant and cocktail bar. The success of the project led to the recently launched Industrial Landscape collection, marking Dixon’s first foray into carpet design.

The collection comprises seven designs - Tide, Crack, Blur, Brick, Smoke, Track and Wash – and for each design Dixon has created unique large-scale vignettes inspired by London’s cityscape and the construction, evolution, degradation and erosion of the rough, everyday surfaces that define its urban environment.

In a series of beguiling patterns and textures that emulate cracked stones, glazed bricks, muddy river banks, industrial smoke, crumbling facades, and distorted reflections on glass towers dominating the skyline, the city is his point of departure, with its railway lines, tunnels, factories, workshops and warehouses forming the gritty backdrop, and reflecting a raw image of industrialisation.

Tom Dixon said, "I am obviously very interested in the materiality, and the carpet in itself is an extraordinary thing when you see the tufting process and the selection of the yarn. But, I am interested beyond the material and the kind of impact it has on the architectural perspectives. Colour is a very powerful thing, as is pattern, particularly when you use it in large expanses as you do with a contract carpet."

Dixon’s designs are available as either carpet tiles or broadloom and can be combined with other ege carpet’s collections for a truly custom floor.

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