Faye Toogood Drawing Room at London Design Festival

LDF '15

The genteel traditions of the English drawing room have been redrafted by designer Faye Toogood. Visitors to the building are invited to relax in an environment that evokes a derelict country house – although in this case the surrounds have been literally drawn in.

The furniture is an intriguing combination of abstracted cardboard sculptures, a drawer of personal archive treasures, and reassuringly chunky contemporary pieces drawn from Toogood’s recent “Roly-Poly” collection, remodelled in charcoal-hued fibreglass. A sense of rustic abandonment is added by a handwoven rug strung together from limewashed fragments of canvas and rope, while stray chickens and ducks – rendered in cardboard origami – mingle with the visitors.