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| Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company |
The new exhibition of British designer
Faye Toogood’s third furniture collection Assemblage 3: Delicate Interference is now open at the
Phillips de Pury gallery, for the
2011 London Design Festival. The pieces address the subjects of natural iridescence, voyeuristic fetishism, and obsessive preservation.
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| Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company |
Situated next to Claridges in central London, the exhibition is a series of re-contextualised home accessories in bronze, aluminium, steel, glass and resin.
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| Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company |
Toogood has said she wanted to incorporate the iridescence of oil in the collection, using oxidization and chemical layers on surfaces to replicate its effect. In one of her pieces, called Trapped Sphere, she has encapsulated actual oil inside a solid resin block, which will preserve and protect the liquid forever.
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| Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company |
Other products in the collection include a dressing table made from steel mesh and pivoting iridescent glass mirrors entitled Cage For Birds, an abstract jewellery stand using a series of hooks and glass bowls, and Armour Bench – an industrial rubber roll covered in 17,000 hand-applied, patinated brass upholstery nails. Fabricating these pieces required the skills of a metalsmith who makes custom motorbikes and surgical tools, and a fade-anodiser who works with firearms.
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| Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company |
The exhibition is open for three weeks from 16 September to 4 October. All pieces exhibited are being sold exclusively through Phillips de Pury, and are available variously in editions of eight, ten, or one-offs.
