Tom Dixon, Maison & Objet’s Designer of the Year

The copper-loving British designer's latest barware collection, designing a hotel and his plans for the London Design Festival

by Caroline Kinneberg Tom Dixon might have received an OBE from Her Majesty in 2001, but that hasn’t made him blasé about winning other awards. Cool Hunting sat down with him last week at the latest edition of Maison & Objet, Paris’ colossal biannual home design tradeshow, where he was honored as Designer of the Year. Wanting to do something special for the show, Dixon …

REMIX Summit NYC: Sree Sreenivasan of The Met

The renowned museum's first Chief Digital Officer weighs in on technology, art culture and the upcoming conference

The worlds of technology, culture and entrepreneurship have never been more connected. Success in any of the aforementioned disciplines requires not just a significant knowledge but a reverence for a diverse range of topics that were once thought unrelated. Building a new mobile banking software application? It’s necessary to know how your market is engaging with technology culturally. In light of this focus on intersections …

Interview: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner

Spanning performance art, music and theatre, the influential New York legend weighs in on his upcoming book "New Truth"

Starbucks isn’t the place New Yorkers go to for art (or really coffee for that matter). However on one fateful night in 1998 at the East Village’s Astor Place location, the coffee retailer was unsuspectingly turned into a guerrilla performance art venue. Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer, art school grads new to the city from Chicago, threw together a performance under the moniker Fischerspooner. From …