"I want a chair that's like a basket full of cushions to curl up and read a book in," was the design brief: the result was the Knoll womb chair, first created in 1946 by Finnish designer Eero Saarinen and now down-scaled to pint-size proportions.

and sometime night club promoter – the boy hasn’t done too badly. Famed for his stunning furniture and lighting design, including the pylon chair for Italian company Cappellini in 1991, and funky lighting like the jack lamp for Eurolounge, Dixon rose