January 2025

CECI N'EST PAS UNE CHAISE! Honoured as Designer of the Year 2025, Faye Toogood crashes into Maison&Objet with WOMANIFESTO! A playful and provocative installation that celebrates her studio's restless experimentation and voracious creative appetite.

"This is my womanifesto. Self portrait of the brain as an artist. Squishy. Surreal. Sensual. Sexual. Spontaneous. Turning the studio of my subconcious inside out." - Faye Toogood.

The exhibition is disorganised into four collapsing chapters. DRAWING. MATERIAL. SCULPTURE. LANDSCAPE. These are the bouncy-castle pillars of Faye Toogood's wobbling, mutable studio.

WOMANIFESTO! is a surrealist re-assemblage of the Toogood archive, capturing the spirit that Faye Toogood is taking into the future. Past collaborations are revisited with site-specific, ephemeral artworks and reinvented Toogood icons.

“I have worked hard to create a vocabulary of shape that is my own.” – Faye Toogood

A monochromatic sculpture room showcases Toogood’s innovations in shape. The dramatic installation features iconic designs from Toogood’s archive remade in all-black materials.

"If you can make something look good in canvas, it will look good in cashmere." - Faye Toogood

Materials are the starting point of most Toogood projects. For WOMANIFESTO! Toogood celebrate the studio's beloved materials library with a series of sculpted heads, new fashion works and curated objects, showcasing Faye's playful love of unexpected and unconventional materials.

"It's often a means to an end." - Faye Toogood

The restless energy of an urgent line is captured in WOMANIFESTO!'s Drawing Room. In the Toogood studio, drawing is about speed and communication mroe than a finished work of art. The pulse of a scribble.

“I feel more comfortable outside than in.” – Faye Toogood

The landscape is a constant and enduring influence across Toogood collections and collaborations. Palette. Materials. Shape. A raw beauty. For WOMANIFESTO! Toogood harnesses this elemental energy in a forest of hand-made, tree-sized cardboard sunflowers.

Visit WOMANIFESTO! at Maison et Object, Paris, January 16 - 20, 2025.

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