As lighting design increasingly embraces interactivity, emotional resonance, and portable functionality, Melt is poised to remain at the vanguard, not by reinventing its silhouette, but by reimagining the way we see and feel light itself.
First unveiled at Salone del Mobile in Milan in April 2015, the Tom Dixon Melt collection quickly became one of the brand’s most recognisable and audacious lighting designs, celebrated for its distorted, metallic surfaces and molten glow. Over the past decade, Melt has evolved into a global design icon, instantly recognisable for its warped silhouette, semi-metallised finish, and otherworldly glow. The light captures the illusion of molten glass frozen mid-drip, its fluid form and hypnotic reflections shifting with every angle. Whether clustered in dramatic formations or used as a singular statement, Melt continues to redefine how lighting can sculpt space.
Pictured left: Bennelong Restaurant, Sydney Opera House | Pictured right: The Manzoni, Milan
Over the years, Melt has found a home in some of the world’s most celebrated interiors. At the Sydney Opera House Bennelong Restaurant, a limited number of Melt lights were installed as part of a design-forward lounge experience, adding a touch of contemporary drama to one of Australia’s most iconic cultural landmarks. In London, The Manzoni, Tom Dixon’s own restaurant and showroom hybrid, features Melt in striking clusters, demonstrating how the lights interact with food, conversation, and architecture.
Evolving across scale and function, Melt is available in Pendant, Surface, Portable, and Floor versions, and in a range of metallic finishes including Chrome, Copper, Gold, Smoke, Opal and the newly released Bronze and Dichroic. Each new iteration has pushed the limits of materiality and visual effect, redefining how light interacts with surface and space. Beloved for its hypnotic optics and fluid geometry, Melt continues to surprise and captivate the interior and outdoor spaces. Now, as the collection enters its second decade, Tom Dixon explores the future of Melt not through form, but through finish and effect.
Pictured: Melt lighting in new Bronze finish
The new Deep Bronze finish evokes the richness of melted chocolate, a tone that’s sophisticated and grounding. It trades the dazzling gloss of earlier metallics for a subtler, more adaptable palette that complements a wide spectrum of interiors.
Meanwhile, Melt Portable expands into new territory with the introduction of Fluoro, a vibrant, colour rich option that joins Chrome, Gold, Smoke, and Copper. Fluoro amplifies the collection’s psychedelic nature, offering a hot blown glass effect in a portable design that’s equal parts surreal and playful.
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Pictured left: Melt Portable with Fluoro base | Pictured right: Melt collection with Dichroic filter
Perhaps most intriguing is Dixon’s recent exploration of dichroic filters, a NASA engineered thin film technology that splits light into its component colours. Referencing everything from novelty sunglasses to ancient Roman glass, Dixon’s fascination with colour filtration led to a radical update: Melt with dichroic treatment. The result is an explosion of prismatic hues, a light that bends, reflects, and refracts in constantly shifting ways. As Dixon puts it, “The already crazed internal reflection gets an additional chromatic boost and an unexpected space age aesthetic.
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This forward looking spirit is what has always defined Melt a willingness to distort the expected, to refract familiar forms into something experimental and new. A decade on, it’s clear Melt is no longer just a best seller, it’s a platform for continual reinvention.
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