Dixon biography

Tom Dixon is an innovative British designer, known as a maverick amongst his peers due to his highly original and extraordinary pieces. He was born in Tunisia in 1959, before moving to England with his family in 1963. After high school, Dixon attended the Chelsea School of Art briefly. Tom Dixon is a self-taught designer who developed his craft after a motorbike accident which made him learn how to weld. He then went on to turn industrial scrap into furniture, forging his way in the design world as a forward-thinker that goes against the grain.

In 2002 Tom Dixon opened his eponymous London-based brand, offering top-quality furniture, accessories and lighting. The brand is at the forefront of British design, producing lights that are innovative and visually stunning. His most famous creations, the Melt pendant light and the Spring pendant lamp showcase his inventive and creative mind.

"More successful objects look like a lamp or a chair and aren’t trying to be something else. They’re what I like to call “expressive minimalism” – they have to retain the lampness or chairness about them, because I don’t like it when things are so minimal you can’t recognise them." - Tom Dixon

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American author (1936-2019)

Stephen Dixon (born Stephen Bruce Ditchik; June 6, 1936 – November 6, 2019) was an American author of novels and short stories.^[1]

Life and career

Dixon was born on June 6, 1936, in Manhattan, New York. He was the fifth of seven children of Florence Leder, a beauty queen, chorus girl on Broadway, and interior decorator, and Abraham M. Ditchik.^[1] He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer, Dixon worked a plethora of odd jobs ranging from bus driver to bartender. In his early 20s he worked as a journalist and in radio, interviewing such political figures as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev.^[2]

Dixon was nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate.^[3]Frog, at 860 pages, was his longest and most ambitious novel, and garnered reviews comparing the work favorably to James Joyce's Ulysses.^[4] He also was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He cited Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Tho