Image source: Tom Dixon — Melt Pendant, Medium
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Melt Pendant, Medium
A distorted, mirrored orb that glows like hot-blown glass when lit
500 × 500 × 500 mm
Germany
2.44 kg
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Melt Medium Pendant is a distorted pendant light with a matching ceiling rose, shown here in Copper (code MES03CO-PEUM2). Tom Dixon describes the Melt shade as changing from a hyper-reflective mirror finish when off to a translucent, hot-blown glass effect with rich depth when lit.
Construction
The shade is blow-moulded polycarbonate with a vacuum-metallised finish (semi-metallised, plated). It hangs from a steel fitting in polished copper on a 250 cm clear cable (H03VV-F 2 × 0.75 mm²), with a dome ceiling rose of 11.5 cm diameter. Tom Dixon states that the Melt series is made in Germany.
Specifications
- Shade: Ø 50 cm × H 50 cm; product weight 2.44 kg
- Light source: integrated 6W LED module, 800 lumens, 3000K, CRI >90; max wattage 9W
- Voltage: 220–240V; mains powered, mains dimmable (leading and trailing edge); indoor use
- Certification: certified for NZ/AUS (technical sheet)
Story
The mirror and the glow
Copper is one of six finishes of the Medium Pendant, and the Copper shade is mirrored when the light is off. Lit, the same shade turns translucent and takes on the look of hot-blown glass, which Tom Dixon's technical sheet describes as an imperfect, organic and naturalistic light.
Design credits and dates
Front's own page describes Melt as a collaboration between the Stockholm studio and Tom Dixon. Tom Dixon's technical sheet dates the design to 2014, while the current official product page says it was designed in 2015 in the London Studio; the two official dates conflict.
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Collection
Melt
Tom Dixon's Melt collection (2014, with Front): vacuum-metallised polycarbonate orbs, mirrored when off, glowing like molten glass when lit. Pendants and lamps.