Orbit

Orbit coffee table and desk are part of Cosmic: Toogood’s collaborative collection with Tacchini. Cosmic is full of irregular, elliptical shapes. Orbit features curving wooden legs upholstered in hide, topped with smooth wooden pebble shapes. The desk and table tops are lacquered, with a rounded hide inlay. The concentric ovals of Orbit are not uniform, characterizing Faye Toogood’s tactile and emotional design process. Orbit is named after the manner in which light wraps around the surface of the tables, following the soft wooden curves. Faced with one of these pieces, you’ll struggle not to run your hands around the tactile edges, tracing your own trajectory that follows the contrasting hide inlay.


Designer: Faye ToogoodYear: 2024
Dimensions

Cod. OBTTB140
W 141 D 65 H 28 cm

Materials and finishes
Glossy lacquered wooden top with hide insert.
Wooden legs covered in hide.
Plaster version:

T173

T187
Green version:

T188

T189
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Faye Toogood

Faye Toogood was raised among the furrowed fields of the English countryside. From an early age she would go foraging in the woods in her wellingtons, collecting sticks and stones and broken bones, and endlessly rearranging them on the mantelpiece in her room. In her early twenties, she turned up at Vogue House clutching a leather suitcase full of found objects and landed a job as a stylist at The World of Interiors. Faye has since become one of the most recognisable figures in the design and art industry, whose work can be found in museum collections around the world. A magpie’s instinct and obsession with landscape continue to permeate everything she designs, whether it be a bronze door handle cast from an abandoned skull, a fashion collection inspired by haybales, or a house interior with the brooding palette of an English sky. Faye’s practice encompasses interior design, homewares, fine art and fashion, and refuses to be constrained by a single discipline or defined way of working. Her London studio is filled with talented nonconformists just like her. Architects, sculptors, furniture makers and illustrators cross-pollinate on every project, producing work that is rigorous, poetic and genuinely avant-garde. Chief among these is her sister, Erica Toogood. Erica has inherited the dextrous hands of her grandmother, a tailor who made underwear out of parachutes during the Second World War. Prior to joining forces with Faye, she worked with a number of London fashion designers as a pattern-cutter and created costumes for theatrical productions. Toogood’s clothing is instilled with the unmistakable spirit of both sisters: Faye’s preoccupation with materiality and Erica’s audacious shape-making. One a tinker, the other a tailor.