Sean Dix
M001695
USA / Product Design, Interior Design
Sean Dix was born in Kansas City (USA). He lived in Fiji, Micronesia, and the Philippines before moving to San Diego, Chicago, and then to Europe in 1994 and Hong Kong in 2008.
He was graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and Domus Academy (Milan) and has lectured and taught at numerous schools around the world including IULM (Milan), Politecnico di Milano, Domus Academy (Milan), Beckman’s (Stockholm), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has extensive experience working with and leading international teams of clients, designers, project architects, structural engineers, contractors, fabricators and local architects in order to bring complex projects to fruition.
His clients include Yardbird Restaurant, Ronin, Carbone Restaurant, Viet Kitchen, Black Sheep Restaurants, Okra, HD Buttercup, Belon Restaurant, IFC Mall, Panda Restaurant Group, YUM! Brands, Moschino, Bluebell, Harrods, Bosco di Ciliegi, Design Within Reach, Edimass, Fiorucci, Byblos, ArtsGroup, Incanto, Pobeda Cinema Complex, La Scala, and I.T. Sean Dix specialises in projects for fashion companies, luxury brands, bars and restaurants, trade fairs, and entertainment complexes. it creates complete, bespoke, detail-oriented concepts and provides turn-key consultation and supervision for the realisation of all elements of the project utilising its extensive network of Chinese and Italian producers, both artisanal and industry leaders.
Portfolio
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Yardbird Interior Design by Sean Dix
Inspired by Bauhaus-era german factory worker canteens, Yardbird is a really direct, minimalist project – we spent more time deleting than creating design for this modern izakaya.
The award-winning restaurant is always slammed, and has from the start been the reference point against which all other innovative restaurants in Hong Kong are compared.
In addition to the overall design, we created custom furniture for the project that we sell worldwide – the Yardbird collection. -
Little Bao, Hong Kong
Little Bao, Hong Kong
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Ho-Lee-Fook Interior Design
Ho Lee Fook “good fortune for your mouth” is a funky Chinese kitchen (in Hong Kong’s historic Elgin street) inspired by old school Hong Kong cha chaan tengs and the spirit of late-night Chinatown hangouts in 1960’s New York. Designed as a backdrop for the work of renowned Taiwanese chef Jowett Yu (famed for his work at Sydney’s Ms. G and Mr. Wong).
The facade is clad with thousands of vintage mahjong tiles, the door handle is a dragon weaving in and out of the glass. Just inside the entrance is an entire wall covered with hundreds of maneki neko (those gold plastic lucky arm waving cats without which no self-respecting Chinese restaurant would open.)
Downstairs we used thick dividing walls punched out with characters inspired by the famed graffiti artist the King of Kowloon and colourful backlit paintings by local artist Jonathan Jay Lee, but the real focal point is an enormous backlit bas relief dragon, (the design of this detail was a little out of the comfort zone of a guy from Kansas, but hey, why not).
We designed custom furniture for Ho Lee Fook which is sold internationally. (Actually, The chairs were originally designed for a project we were doing with Chairman Mao’s granddaughter, but in the end, despite her best efforts, that project didn’t go forward. so Ho Lee Fook got the chairs instead.) -
HD Buttercup Interior Design
HD Buttercup Interior Design
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Ronin Chair
Ronin Chair
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Control Brand Sean Dix Twist Dowel Dining Table
Control Brand Sean Dix Twist Dowel Dining Table
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Forte Square Table
Forte Square Table
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Copine Bar Height Stool
Copine Bar Height Stool
