![Give Me an S Give Me an S](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Cappellini_S-Chair-Tom-Dixon-Stuhl_870x870-ID560760-7f3fc761e4641a89fc3dc507d909b802.jpg)
Give Me an S
Serpentine. Seductive. Salubrious. Tom Dixon’s iconic S Chair inhabits the very soul of the letter. In one sweeping, swooping gesture Dixon establishes it as a daring feat of industrial design and an audacious expression of sitting.
![S chair Black leather](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/S-Chair-Black-1024x889.jpeg)
We know this much: the designer conceived S Chair back in the 80s. But his recollections of its generation are a bit hazy: ”honestly, the only memory I have is of drawing a small doodle of a chicken on the back of a napkin and thinking that I could make a chair from it.”
![S Chair blue fabric](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/S-chair-Blue-1024x784.jpeg)
It’s a pretty humorous creation myth, especially for a chair lauded for its sensuous form and approximation of feminine beauty.
![S Chair cowhide](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Cowhide-749x1024.jpg)
But S Chair is nothing if not enigmatic. And on the occasion of its 30th anniversary of production, Dixon is showing it in its many guises: from denim to leather; sheepskin to suede; plain old fabric to woven bullrush.
![S Chair original design, sheepskin, and bullrush](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Original-Designs-1024x943.jpeg)
The first prototype was made of a rubber inner tube and steel rod. Today’s multiple iterations feature industrial hard/soft foam with a wool cover and iron steering-wheel base.
![S chair sheepskin with melt lamp](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/S-Chair-sheepskin-1024x683.jpg)
Dixon did a pop-up museum in London to celebrate the anniversary. And S Chair is in the permanent collections of many other museums including MOMA NY and V&A London.
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Go to Tom Dixon for more. And see Designer Pages Media for additional designs by Dixon.
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