Design Secrets: Furniture

then someone else does the model and it gets sent to a manu-

facturing facility. This project was multidimensional.”

The Fresh Fat Chair—and the table and bowls—collapse all these

steps into a single, spontaneous piece of design performance art.

Dixon subverts the industrial process of plastic extrusion by tak-

ing the hot polymer strands as they come out of the machine and

draping and weaving them over a rough mold where they cool

into the shape of furniture. The Provista PETG co-polyster plastic

solidifies into a glistening structure that looks as delicate as a

glass house but is actually solid and stable. “They’re all individ-

ual,” says Dixon. “The ...