## Tom Pearson’s Riveted Furniture Makes the Limits of a Workshop Visible The name is a provocation, not an audit. Tom Pearson’s debut furniture and lighting collection, shown at London’s APOC store during London Design Festival this September, contains 6,264 rivets, not 10,000. “Who knows where the rest have gone?” Pearson muses. That playful ambiguity runs through the collection’s title, yet the objects themselves are the product of strict material logic, shaped at every stage by the limits of a one-person workshop in Lewisham, south-east London. Before there were joints, there was a tank.…