четверг, 25 июня 2009 г.

A Well-Composed Life

A Well-Composed Life

The designer Faye Toogood finds exceptional beauty in unexpected arrangements of objects,
and uses them to create installations for fashion houses — and her own house. Read the article


  • A Ben Nicholson print hangs in the master bedroom.
  • The master bedroom also contains an antique French bistro mirror.
  • Faye Toogood in a dress from Egg, in London.
  • The front sitting room of Toogood’s London house contains a pair of 1950s Italian chairs, vintage Swedish lights above the fireplace and a vase by Hilda Hellstrom on the Element coffee table, designed by Toogood.
  • In the dining room (the door handle is a Toogood design for Izé), Charlotte Perriand’s Pivotant lights flank a photograph by Tobias Harvey above the fireplace. The Madea dining chairs by Vittorio Nobili are from the 1950s.
  • A 19th-century sofa paired with a 1950s marble Italian table in the back sitting room.
  • Toogood making workers’ coats at the London Design Festival 2012.
  • The Conductor, an interactive light installation, in which a bank of resin-encased toggle switches control a wall of fluorescent lights, for Established & Sons at the London Design Festival 2013.

  • “La Cura,” a performance piece in Milan last year, invited visitors to make clay forms that were then put together to create a communal sculpture.
    Alessandro Maria Nacar

Original article and pictures take www.nytimes.com site

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