Johnnie Walker® Global Brand ambassador Tom Jones and celebrated British designer Tom Dixon, OBE, pictured at the Johnnie Walker® Blue Label™ bottle art installation at ‘The RESTAURANT by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon’, part of Milan Design Week.

Celebrated British designer Tom Dixon, OBE, has unveiled his immersive celebration of creative innovation with the opening of ‘The RESTAURANT by Caesarstone & Tom Dixon’ at Milan Design Week – a venue at which Johnnie Walker® was the accompaniment of choice.

Every year, Milan Design Week sees up to half a million extra people descend on the city for the largest fair of its kind in the world. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the prestigious festival. Its exhibitions showcase the latest in interior design and feature work from the world’s most important contemporary furniture designers.

Johnnie Walker® Global Brand ambassador Tom Jones and Francesca Sarti, from the Italian food design studio Arabeschi di Latte, pictured at ‘The RESTAURANT by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon’, part of Milan Design Week.

‘The RESTAURANT’ consists of four extraordinary sculptural kitchens inspired by the elements – Earth, Fire, Water and Air – and has been created by acclaimed designer Dixon in conjunction with Caesarstone, makers of luxury quartz interior surfaces.

Taste and design come together with Johnnie Walker® Blue Label™ at ‘The RESTAURANT by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon’, as part of Milan Design Week.

As well as a Johnnie Walker bar, ‘The RESTAURANT’ is also home to a stunning Johnnie Walker® Blue Label™ bottle art installation, created and designed by Dixon, which sits in the ‘Water’ section of The RESTAURANT. The installation is a dynamic and fluid design that expresses the flow of whisky and the versatile approach to design that is necessary for creating iconic Scotch blends.

The menu at ‘The RESTAURANT’ was created and designed by Arabeschi di Latte, the Italian food design studio founded by Francesca Sarti in 2001. All guests had the opportunity to visit the Johnnie Walker bar and enjoy whisky mentoring sessions hosted by Johnnie Walker brand ambassador Tom Jones.

Speaking about the collaboration, Guy Escolme, Global Brand Director for Johnnie Walker, said: “Taste and design go hand-in-hand, so when we were approached about bringing Johnnie Walker to ‘The RESTAURANT’, and to work closely with an international designer of the calibre of Tom Dixon, we were only too happy to get involved.

“The Johnnie Walker blenders are, at heart, designers themselves. At our Blenders’ Rooms in Scotland, they experiment with flavour from a palette of more than eight million casks to create perfect Scotch blends.”