Tom Dixon says his Mirror Ball lamp is “a failure in design terms“

In this exclusive movie, British designer Tom Dixon says the lamp that helped turn his company into an international brand would have been less successful if the design had achieved what he set out to create. Mirror Ball is a highly reflective lamp consisting of a lightweight transparent plastic sphere coated with a thin layer of aluminium. The lamp is one of Dixon’s best-selling products – his brand sells over 1,000 every month. However, the British designer claims the success of the product was complete