Tom Dixon chairs all over Trafalgar Square

We dropped by Trafalgar Square today to check out Tom Dixon's latest design, his expanded polystyrene chairs. They were scattered liberally across the square, and had transformed it into a truly social space (rather than a place where you more usually feel like saying "Is this it?").

The chairs themselves were great. There were three colours - a grey, a white, and a particularly tasty vibrant orange, though while we were there the Tom Dixon road crew were quietly removing the orange ones - perhaps for another event? The chairs were comfortable to sit on, and because they're made of expanded polystyrene, really easy to pick up and move around. The mixed crowd of bemused tourists, excited design junkies and besuited office workers all seemed to be having a grand time. Great to see that a simple idea can create such a buzz.

They were giving away 500 of the grey and white chairs at 3pm, but unfortunately we couldn't hang around that long; and the chairs might have been just a bit too cumbersome to carry on the back of a bike anyhow...