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SOL
Precision In Display
SOL Inspired by the cubic sculptures of American Artist Sol Lewitt, Tom Dixon’s design team created a display system for their showrooms and shop-in-shop spaces world wide.
In the 1960s LeWitt began investigating the cube—a form that remained an essential element of his artistic language throughout his career. But in 1973, the artist started to literally take the cube apart. The Conceptual artist’s exploration places emphasis on the idea rather than the art object, and so LeWitt asked: how many variations could be created by systematically subtracting parts from an open cube? For months he painstakingly worked through the artistic process and idea, and concluded with 122 variations of incomplete open cubes.
The result is SOL, a system of modular lengths that can interconnected to make geometric structures to carry a variety of merchandise.
The system flat packs to ease logistics, and is reconfigurable to allow the whole system to change and evolve.
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Sol 350 for 350mm apertures
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SOL 500
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Sol 500 for 500mm apertures
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