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Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video tag. DLINE X TOM DIXON SHORT V1 2021 (1)
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  • designer

    Tom Dixon

    Design Research Studio

  • year

    2021

  • category

    hardware

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Fat – a name,
an aesthetic

Together with British designer Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio, heritage Danish architectural ironmongery brand d line is launching FAT, a new line of hardware. 

Having applied what Tom calls a ‘fat edge’ or ‘fat profile’ to several different objects in development at Tom Dixon Studio, the designer had already been using the word ‘fat’ to imply generosity and softness of form. So, with the studio’s move into architectural ironmongery, and with the same ‘inflation’ process applied to a regular handle, the name again relates. The result lacks any trace of sharpness or angularity and is a collection of pumped-up pieces that are simply ‘fatter’ than the norm.

Tom Dixon has magnified the silhouette of each piece’s ‘normal’ aesthetic, to create softer edges and a generous profile.

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The pieces are available a tight edit of finishes for different expressions in colour. Satin stainless steel is joined by polished brass, as well as PVD charcoal and electric blue.

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The collection comprises a lever handle, key escutcheon and thumb turn, as well as a door knocker, pull handle, flush pull and door stop. Like the rest of the d line portfolio, each piece is minimalist enough to be timeless in its design, its beauty coming from its rounded profile and inflated silhouette, rather than from superfluous details. The pieces are enduringly crafted in the highly resilient AISI 316 stainless steel preferred by d line and enhanced by a tight edit of finishes for different expressions in colour.

 

Tom Dixon describes door handles as having “a particularly difficult and hyper-functional set of challenges, because they’ve evolved rather than being designed.” He observes that often designer handles are less functional than traditional ones, because a handle is something with which there’s little to be done to affect the aesthetic beyond what's come before. The challenge for him and his studio, therefore, has been the creation of something that functions well, yet looks distinctively different from what’s already out there.

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  • The Fat collection in satin stainless steel.
  • The Fat collection in Electric Blue and PVD Charcoal.
  • Fat doorstops in all finishes.
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479011F1000

Fat door knocker - electric blue

Tom Dixon collection
179007F1001

Fat lever handle - electric blue

Tom Dixon collection
179008F1140

Fat pull handle, medium - electric blue

Tom Dixon collection
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