Faye Toogood

from the Super Natural: Assemblage No 1, 2010
© FAYE TOOGOOD

Assemblage by British designer FAYE TOOGOOD is an ongoing project that blurs the lines between design and art. Each collection features timely study of material, form and finish: The furniture and the object have become a way of telling stories. In all of my work I’ve tried to link the conceptual to the visual, although it’s much harder with the objects and furniture because they have to work, whereas a photograph only needs to evoke an emotion and a space an experience. I’m also trying to challenge the perception of materials and constructions and our emotional connection with the objects we choose live with. Not in a worthy way that will change the world, but just in a way that allows people to look at things differently. – FAYE TOOGOOD for SightUnseen

Her first collection, Assemblage 1, was inspired by modernist sculpture, British craftsmanship, and her childhood growing up in the English countryside; it gave way to Assemblage 2 in Milan earlier this year, which took a darker, edgier turn. Finally, her third furniture collection, Delicate Interference: Assemblage 3, was launched exclusively with Phillips de Pury & Company during the 2011 London Design Festival (september-october, 2011).



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