Sanipex Group has announced a major new partnership with renowned British design brand Tom Dixon, bringing the London-based studio’s distinctive, material-led approach to manufacturing, form, and industrial aesthetics into its regional portfolio.
Founded in London in 2002 by the self-taught industrial designer Tom Dixon, the brand has grown over more than two decades into an internationally recognized name represented in more than 90 countries. While lighting sits firmly at the heart of the brand—anchored by iconic best-sellers such as the Melt and Whirl collections—the offering has steadily expanded to encompass a curated selection of furniture, home accessories, and tabletop pieces. Under the new agreement, Sanipex Group will integrate these striking collections into its robust network, providing designers, architects, specifiers, and retail clients with unprecedented access to the British studio’s avant-garde creations across the United Arab Emirates.
The collaboration brings together Tom Dixon’s experimental, material-driven design ethos with Sanipex Group’s deeply established presence in showroom retail, trade supply, major project specification, and digital channels. Operating a network of 12 showrooms across the UAE, Sanipex Group provides a powerful physical platform where clients can experience the collections firsthand. Beyond simple retail display, the group offers comprehensive project support, ensuring that specifiers can seamlessly incorporate the London brand’s lighting and furniture into ambitious residential, hospitality, and commercial schemes.
For over thirty years, Sanipex Group has cultivated an expansive portfolio spanning bathrooms, kitchens, surfaces, lighting, and outdoor living. Backed by extensive experience across diverse sectors—including high-profile, award-winning regional developments—the group provides a natural, sophisticated setting for Tom Dixon’s multifaceted work. Because Tom Dixon’s portfolio effortlessly bridges lighting, furniture, and decorative accessories while maintaining an uncompromising focus on materiality and manufacturing processes, it fits securely within Sanipex Group’s holistic approach to interior and exterior design solutions.
Daryl Barker, Founder and CEO of Sanipex Group, highlighted the strategic alignment of the two brands, noting that the collaboration enhances the company’s ability to serve discerning regional clients. "Tom Dixon brings a distinctive design perspective to our portfolio, particularly in the way the studio explores materials, manufacturing, and form," Barker says. "The partnership is a strong fit for Sanipex Group, combining that creative approach with our showroom network, project experience, and specification support to make the collection more accessible to clients across the region."
Central to the appeal of Tom Dixon’s output is its deeply experimental approach to production, which frequently reimagines familiar materials and industrial processes in unexpected ways. This ingenuity is particularly evident within the brand’s celebrated lighting portfolio, where surface treatment, reflection, and geometric manipulation are treated as being just as vital to a piece’s character as the illumination it casts.
At the center of the initial launch through Sanipex Group is Melt, easily one of Tom Dixon’s most recognizable and visually arresting collections. The organic, irregular form of Melt draws direct inspiration from molten glass, cooling lava, and materials undergoing radical transformation. To achieve this signature look, blow-moulded polycarbonate undergoes an intricate vacuum metallisation process. The result is a highly reflective, mirror-like exterior when the lamp is switched off, which miraculously transforms into a translucent, fiery orb once illuminated. The Melt collection spans a comprehensive range of formats—including show-stopping chandeliers, cascading pendants, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lights, and portable designs—harnessing its advanced manufacturing techniques to create a dramatic visual metamorphosis between daylight and artificial illumination.
Although lighting remains the primary focal point of the Tom Dixon universe, the partnership with Sanipex Group reaches well beyond luminous fixtures to encompass broader spatial solutions. Among these is Groove, the brand’s innovative outdoor furniture collection. Bringing a distinctive, tactile ridged surface to aluminium dining chairs, tables, and stools, Groove extends Tom Dixon’s characteristic curiosity about industrial manufacturing into the open-air setting, offering robust yet sophisticated options for terrace and garden design.
Further enriching the collaborative scope are Tom Dixon’s diverse accessories and tabletop pieces, which provide an accessible entry point into the brand’s expansive design narrative. Selected indoor furniture lines are also slated for introduction as the partnership matures and develops over time. Together, these complementary categories empower interior designers and architects to carry Tom Dixon’s uncompromising design language seamlessly across multiple zones of a project without ever diluting the core emphasis on exceptional lighting and form.
For Sanipex Group, this broader category scope directly mirrors the sophisticated methodology employed by its showrooms and project specification teams. Rather than evaluating products in isolation, the group facilitates a cohesive specification process where materials, finishes, scale, and function are considered in harmonious relation to the complete architectural space. Consequently, Tom Dixon enters the portfolio not merely as an isolated lighting brand, but as a comprehensive design house capable of contributing cohesively across diverse interior and outdoor applications.
Tom Dixon, Founder and Creative Director of the eponymous brand, expressed enthusiasm for the new alliance and its potential to deepen the studio’s footprint in the Middle East. "We are delighted to be working with Sanipex Group on this new chapter for the brand in the Middle East," comments Tom Dixon. "Their established showroom presence and close relationships with the design and specification community give us a strong platform for the collection, and we look forward to developing the partnership together."
The comprehensive Tom Dixon collection is now officially available through Sanipex Group. Design professionals, trade specifiers, and retail clients can explore the products online or experience the striking displays in person across Sanipex Group’s showroom network in the UAE, where dedicated product and specification support is readily accessible.
