Maison&Objet is honoured to announce Faye Toogood as Designer of the Year 2025. An iconic figure in British design, Faye Toogood stands out because of her polymorphous and unique creative career, a source of inspiration for the international design and interior design community.

A visionary in her field, Faye Toogood has instinctively expanded her creative horizons, effortlessly navigating between design and fashion, showcasing the many dimensions of her boundless creativity. Uninhibited, she skillfully adjusts the dial of boldness, amplifying it for her collectible designs – her experimental playground – while tempering it for the broader public editions that stem from it.

As a consummate artist, Faye Toogood is the perfect embodiment of the January edition of Maison&Objet, which celebrates extraordinary encounters, avant-garde movements, and artistic worlds. Her work serves as a wellspring of inspiration for premium projects, whether in residential or hospitality contexts. By integrating fashion into her global lifestyle, she opens up new realms of possibility, crafting a vision that is both diverse and cohesive. One of the few female design signatures in her country, Faye Toogood stands as a trailblazer in championing women’s representation on an international stage – a core focus of Maison&Objet’s Women&Design initiative.

Join us from 16 to 20 January 2025 to discover the most surreal aspects of grey matter.

BELIEVING IN THE POWER OF THE MIND
Design, fashion, sculpture, drawing, interior decoration: Faye Toogood can’t bring herself to choose between these different ways of expressing her creativity. Brought up in the English countryside without the distraction of television, surrounded by the natural world, she marvels at the power of imagination. Instead of using technology, she prefers to let her mind wander and daydream. Her first collection, Assemblage 1, was a combination of simple shapes, dedicated to raw materials and English know-how.

Faye Toogood sculpts shapes and celebrates raw materials. In 2014, she achieved worldwide success with Roly-Poly, a curved seat on four sturdy legs.

The design of limited-series collections is for her an opportunity for experimentation. In New York, she is represented by the Friedman Benda gallery, and her works are included in the permanent collections of several museums around the world. She has collaborated with a number of design brands including Italian rug makers cc-tapis, Maison Matisse, New York wallpaper designers Calico, and furniture brands Tacchini and Poltrona Frau. Driade makes a mass-produced version of the Roly-Poly chair which is also sold as a hand-made product by the studio. Her most recent collection, Assemblage 8, consists of furniture assembled like a children’s construction set.

“Give them pieces of a puzzle and let them figure it out,” she says. “Creativity is at the heart of who we all are, where we come from and who we could be one day.”

HER KEY DATES:
1977: born in the United Kingdom.
1998: graduated in Art History from the University of Bristol.
1999-2007: interior design editor, World of Interiors magazine, Condé Nast Group, London.
2008: founded Studio Toogood in London.
2010: founded the Faye Toogood brand in London. Presented Assemblage 1, her first collection, at the London Festival. 2012: founded the Toogood clothing brand with her sister Erica. 2014: her Assemblage 4 was presented in Milan, including the Roly-Poly Chair.
2020: Assemblage 6, ‘Unlearning’, was pre-sented in New York at the Friedman Benda gallery.
2022: publication by Phaidon of the book ‘Faye Toogood: Drawing, Material, Sculp-ture, Landscape’.

2024:Assemblage 8, ‘Back & Forth’ by Faye Toogood.