The genteel traditions of the English drawing room have been redrafted by designer Faye Toogood. Visitors to the building are invited to relax in an environment that evokes a derelict country house – although in this case the surrounds have been literally drawn in.
The furniture is an intriguing combination of abstracted cardboard sculptures, a drawer of personal archive treasures, and reassuringly chunky contemporary pieces drawn from Toogood’s recent “Roly-Poly” collection, remodelled in charcoal-hued fibreglass. A sense of rustic abandonment is added by a handwoven rug strung together from limewashed fragments of canvas and rope, while stray chickens and ducks – rendered in cardboard origami – mingle with the visitors.
