Tom Dixon’s career has taken him from discovering the concept for the S-bend chair while welding motorcycle parts, to becoming 1 of the hottest designers of lighting, furnishings and interiors, and to occupying the chair of Inventive Director at the venerable Finnish Artek.
Dixon’s most recent showpiece, Tazmania Ballroom in Hong Kong, opened recently in the Central District (Lan Kwai Fong) where a lot more than 100 bars, restaurants and entertainment venues attract men and women from about the world.
Tazmania’s owner is Hong Kong entertainment entrepreneur Gilbert Yeung Kei-lung. With his British boarding school and Canadian college upbringing, he wanted a British private-club atmosphere, but with out the stuffiness.
He tapped Dixon’s Design and style Investigation Studio and lead designer Helene Bangsbo Andersen who employed refined James Bondish snobbery with its retro high-tech and combined it with a confident, cool club atmosphere.
The result is an exclusive and glamorous mix of a pool hall/private club/dance club/night club. Golden pool tables are magically lifted to the ceiling generating room for a single of Hong Kong’s largest dance floors where resident DJs preserve the very carefully screened guests hopping with the most current Funktion A single ound system. The British street culture is emphasized with the staffers attire: they put on Doc Martens and Fred Perry.
Dixon’s personal pieces decorate the opulent space which includes the Cone, Pipe and Copper Shade lights and the Offcut Stool.
Gilbert Yeung is also the founder of the Dragon-I bar and restaurant, Busy Suzie and Brother & Sister shop and cafe. He is the son of Albert Yeung Sau-Shing, Hong Kong entertainment tycoon and chairman of the media conglomerate Emperor Entertainment Group. Tuija Seipell
Tazmania Ballroom – Hong Kong
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