Cast Factory Money Box

The Factory is a cast money box that opens around a sizeable hinge to give easy access to hoardings. It stands solid and dependable, as a testament to the age of great British engineering, despite not being made here. Oh the irony. Cast from solid aluminium which is then powder coated black its apparent heft is belied by its weight. It is part of a series, by London based designer Tom Dixon, which explores our ever changing relationship with the industrial landscape. It alludes to how the miniaturisation of everything and the endless softening of ware leads us to forget that industry was once huge and uncompromising, noisy and belching, frightening in its brutal beauty and both the harbinger and precursor of the modern information age. It is thought a lot but not said enough, Tom Dixon is very clever.