Material Anthology by Faye Toogood, Casa Tacchini

Material Anthology by Faye Toogood

Toogood take over Casa Tacchini with Material Anthology: a site-specific sculptural intervention celebrating raw materials and hands-on making.

For Toogood, materials are a playground. At the centre of their London studio – open shelves display a diverse and delicious library of raw materials. Lumps of clay, twists of metal, blocks of timber assembled into Faye Toogood’s cabinet of curiosity.

For Salone del Mobile 2026, Toogood were invited to take over Casa Tacchini for the duration of the fair. Faye’s response was Material Anthology: a site-specific sculptural intervention.

Faye Toogood has plundered the Tacchini studio, workshops and archives – curating an anthology of raw materials as the focal point of Material Anthology. Toogood have reimagined Casa Tacchini with a bold intervention. Offcuts, samples, and a bounty of raw materials are reshaped into site-specific sculptures that celebrate the hands-on, human process of design.

Each room of Material Anthology amplifies a tonal palette drawn from Tacchini’s natural materials from the blue veins of a hunk of marble to the blushing pink of a timber knot.

"My work finds its roots in the raw intelligence of materials."

Faye Toogood

“Materials are the starting point of everything we do at Toogood. There’s a big area dedicated to it in the studio, I’ve always called it my jewellery box. I’ll pull pieces from this library and see how they talk to each other. I like the fact that if I take the same chair and I do it in plastic, bronze glass, aluminium, or gold leaf, every time it has a completely different connotation. It’s the same shape, but I just changed the material. How do you feel about it? How does it impact you? How do you connect to it? I wanted to encourage Tacchini to explore their own jewellery box with the same curiosity. They work with the most incredible natural materials. Material Anthology is a testament to the nobility, quality and infinite potential of Tacchini’s raw ingredients.” – Faye Toogood