![]() ![]() Of course, not every dwelling calls for the same aesthetic proportions. This family home displays just the right balance between high design and comfortable domesticity. “The expression of raw natural materials also formed a dialogue with the exterior of the property, seen through full-width windows and sliding glass doors, which made the garden the home’s fourth wall.” “The delicate tones of white, putty, mushroom and pale honeycomb provided soft contrasts to the hard material surfaces found in polished-concrete kitchen cupboards and worktops, and a bathtub made from Portland stone composite,” the book goes on. ![]() "The 1960s house, which was designed by Segal, was carefully reinterpreted according to the Segal Method this involved restoring the original exposed pale-grey brickwork and complementing it with white acoustic-board ceilings, timber panelling, soft-felt cupboards and reconditioned parquet floors,” reads the text in our book. Here’s how this project is characterised in our new book. The place was, as the name suggests, the home of Walter Segal, a twentieth-century Swiss architect best known for developing a ‘self-build’ style of home building, which enabled dedicated amateurs to build and rework their homes. Some of the most beautiful, simple and perfectly judged interiors in the book are the ones in Toogood’s own home, Walter Segal House, on North Hill, in North London. Our new book is filled with exquisitely executed rooms, from gallery spaces to flagship stores.įaye Toogood, House of Toogood, Redchurch Street, London, 2020. The magazine may have enabled her to travel the world, but it also taught her the rudiments of much more centred, static discipline - interior design. Having access to all those references and all those amazing things – it was an education on objects and space.” And then, as a stylist, I was handling amazing objects, such as teapots from the seventeenth-century. “At the age of twenty-one, going to Mali to look at mud huts or to Rajasthan to thirteenth-century palaces, to Sweden to their palaces, to squats in Brixton, London,” the writer and curator Sarah Schleuning quotes Toogood as saying in our new title, “just forming this powerful connection to people’s spaces at such an early age. Though she had left academia, Toogood describes this wide-ranging role as an ‘education’. However, as our new book Faye Toogood: Drawing, Material, Sculpture, Landscape, explains, this British designer's first creative forays were much closer to home.Īfter completing an undergraduate degree in art history at University of Bristol, Toogood began her career at Condé Nast’s World of Interiors magazine, working as a prop stylist. Whether she's creating her own family house, or a luxurious city pad, this British designer instinctively knows how to marry great aesthetics and great comfortįaye Toogood may have excelled in a huge variety of fields, including exhibition design, sculpture, fashion and furniture. Photo by Henry Bourne How Faye Toogood balances high design and domesticity The living room in Walter Segal House, North Hill, London, 2015.
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