Designer sisters Faye and Erica Toogood at London-based Studio Toogood united their objects, clothes and sculptures within an interior space for the first time during London Design Festival 2015. Their installation The Drawing Room at Somerset House welcomed visitors into a space where the translucent plastic sheets lining the walls were covered in charcoal-sketched furniture.
The space held more than a figment of imagination; the sisters completed the redrafting of an English drawing room with a combination of abstracted cardboard sculptures, cardboard origami stray chickens and ducks and their contemporary Roly-Poly pieces from their Assemblage 4 collection, remodeled in fiberglass.
In the center of the room: a delightful handwoven rug strung together from limewashed fragments of canvas and rope. Their recent fashion collection hung from a metal rail and personal objects filled a vintage cabinet to encourage a relaxed feel.
Courtesy of Studio Toogood.
“It’s a fictional but autobiographical room that is filled with objects, scenes, walks and places that we remember as children,” Faye explained in an interview about the exhibition.
The sisters describe their father as an anthropologist, saying they grew up listening to him memorizing distinct bird noises. In the exhibition, recordings of birds singing played throughout the space.
Check out the video interview with Faye Toogood on LSN.
