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Industrial and Furniture Designer
About Faye Toogood
In 2013, Faye Toogood launched the Roly-Poly chair, a radical departure from sleek minimalism, its bulbous, hand-sculpted silhouette cast in pigmented plaster and later refined in fibreglass and bronze. That piece crystallised her lifelong interrogation of weight, volume, and craft: furniture not as functional object alone, but as anthropomorphic presence, echoing geological strata and bodily softness. She founded Toogood Studio not as a design atelier but as a multidisciplinary workshop where cabinetmakers, ceramicists, and textile weavers collaborate across disciplines, deliberately blurring authorship and reviving pre-industrial making rhythms. Her 2019 'Assemblage 5' collection introduced raw, unsealed oak with visible grain fractures and hand-rubbed limewash finishes, rejecting perfection in favour of material honesty. Based in London but rooted in the English countryside, she sources reclaimed timber from storm-felled trees in Dorset and works with small-batch foundries in Sheffield, each decision a quiet rebuttal to globalised production logic.
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