Jolt Back To Corporeality With This Suggestive Rug Collection
Brit design icon Faye Toogood was in a rude mood at Fuorisalone this year—and we loved it! The “Rude Arts Club” exhibition at Piazza Santo Stefano 10 showcased her rugs for CC-Tapis plus her Cosmic furniture for Tacchini, upholstered in Dedar fabrics. The hand-knotted, suggestively shaped, and uber-textured rugs, which were displayed on walls as well as the floor, had provocative titles like Tongue-and-Cheek, Poking Fun, and Blue Tit. The colors, Toogood notes, were inspired by her visit to an exhibit of Francis Bacon paintings. “There’s nobody like him to jolt you back to corporeality,” she explains. “All that visceral fleshliness, vivid pink and bloody red jarring with orange and lilac. It’s not necessarily the shapes or subjects in the paintings that I wanted to reference, but the feeling the exhibition gave me that lingered in my guts.” Equally enticing was Cosmic, a collection featuring puffy padded mirrors and a louche silver armchair resembling a stack of squishy pillows.
“These are rugs to roll around on, with lumps and bulges to grab hold of”
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