Tom Dixon and MILER Running: Cast Iron, On Foot in Tribeca

Tom Dixon is holding Cast Iron, On Foot on 14 November at his Tribeca studio, 186 Franklin Street: a 5K run with MILER Running followed by a studio tour and gathering. The event draws together the makers and collaborators shaping his work—Bang & Olufsen, Studio Bumi, Guinness—in a single morning, combining movement with the spaces where his cast iron lights and furniture are made.

The gathering reflects how Dixon’s studio actually operates. Paul J Morimoto directs the creative vision. Studio Bumi, the Indonesian furniture makers, bring sculptural chairs in deep red to the space. Bang & Olufsen contribute precision audio equipment. The photographs from the event show Tom Dixon’s cast iron pendant lights suspended above Studio Bumi chairs, their curved forms visible in the light. Flowers rest in clear glass vessels on tables beside them. On Franklin Street itself, runners gather between Tribeca’s brick facades, a community formed in shared movement.

What Dixon is doing here is deliberate. He is not hosting a product launch or a press event dressed as something warmer. He is inviting people to move together, to see how cast iron and light and studio space and community actually feel when you are inside them. The 5K run strips away the usual formalities; runners arrive warm, present, ready to look at things differently. The studio tour becomes less a marketing gesture and more a genuine encounter with how things are made. The post run gathering, fuelled by Guinness, allows the real conversations to happen: between makers, between runners who have become friends, between the people who care enough about design to show up on a Saturday morning in New York.

The photographs from the event reveal what is actually at stake. Tom Dixon’s cast iron pendant lights hang above a space furnished with Studio Bumi’s sculptural chairs in warm red, their curved lines echoing the runners’ own movement. On the table beside them sit flowers, arranged with the care someone has clearly taken. In another image, a collaborator tends to pink blooms in clear glass vessels, the kind of ordinary, beautiful gesture that happens when people have time and attention. On Franklin Street itself, runners gather between the brick facades of Tribeca, a community formed in motion, ready to understand what comes next.

This is how Tom Dixon’s practice actually works. The cast iron is not simply a material he chose for its weight or its history. It is a choice about durability, about objects that age and deepen rather than fade. The studio is not a showroom but a place where making happens, where the hands of makers from different continents are visible. The gathering is not transactional but genuinely about the people whose decisions have shaped what he makes and how he thinks.

Cast Iron, On Foot runs from 10am to 1pm tomorrow at 186 Franklin Street, Tribeca. The few remaining spots can be confirmed through Tom Dixon’s official channels. Come ready to run, to look closely at how things are made, and to understand why the designer believes that community and craft are inseparable.

Imagery courtesy of Tom Dixon (@tomdixonstudio).