Roly-Poly Chair / Earth
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Faye Toogood

Roly-Poly Chair / Earth

London designer Faye Toogood works in highly-considered discrete collections which she calls “Assemblages,” each one based on its own material investigations, reference sources, and conceptual premises. This rounded chair in cast cob composite – a material used in earthen architecture – is one from her fifth Assemblage, which was based on a pantheistic cosmology of primary elements: water, earth, and moon. Its rounded lines are friendly enough, but also evoke ancient precepts of femininity. “Many people have likened the chair to a baby elephant or an African fertility chair, and comment on its references to Art Deco and Sixties geometry.  I think she is all of those things,” says Toogood.  

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Artist
Faye Toogood
Material
Cob composite
Contributing Gallery
Friedman Benda
Date
2016
Dimensions
24 in × 34 in × 23.5 in
60.96 cm × 86.36 cm × 59.69 cm
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Image credit: Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Faye Toogood, photography by Angus Mill
Roly-Poly Chair / Earth
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