FLAME CUT is coming to London for London Design Festival as part of #TomDixonTWENTY⁠ ⁠ The nature of sustainability is more than complex and has a multidimensionality. The one thing that we can say for certain is that our industry has slow consumption patterns (when is the last time you bought a table for instance? When will you buy your next one?) If we can build-in true longevity where the product survives generations through timeless designs and quality materials, then we can claim at least best practise.⁠ ⁠ Our symbolic project in this regard was created for a sculpture exhibition at Sudeley Castle, a Tudor mansion that had burnt down, along with all its furnishings, three times in the last 1100 years. This got us thinking about what we could make that might survive fires and wars, pestilence and floods.⁠ ⁠ So, we set about making a set of archetypical furniture objects in the unusually heavyweight material of inch thick plate steel. Normally used in the production of army tanks, bridges and cruise liners, we are confident in issuing this chair a ‘thousand-year guarantee’ in an unstoppable ambition to develop eternal life in our products