Milan Design Week - April 2025

“I feel very comfortable outside. More than inside. It's where all my ideas and information comes from. Space, smell, sight. With each Toogood project, connection with the landscape grows. It could be a city allotment or rolling patchwork hills.” – Faye Toogood

Inside the Toogood studio is a never-ending, always-changing dance between the force of nature and spirit of human creation. Inspiration from, and interpretation of the landscape are a line joining the dots between each idiosyncratic and boundary-challenging Toogood project. “ROSE” is Faye Toogood’s tribute to her kitchen garden.

“The relationship I have grown with my garden is deeply personal… bordering on the spiritual. I take great comfort in the cycles of sprouting, budding, flowering, ripening, waning … and then rebirth. In the South Downs of England I tend heritage flowers alongside a recipe-book of ingredients for the table. For ROSE I wanted to give an impression of how the garden feels… makes me feel. Especially in the barefoot, solitary moments of sunrise.” - Faye Toogood

Drawn from memory and feeling, ROSE is a riot of pink and green – the palette of an English garden at sunrise. Faye Toogood chose to curate noble forms from Noritake’s archives to useas a substrate for her spontaneous and emotive mark-making. The result is an unexpected dialogue between Nagoya and the South Downs of England, Notitake’s generations of artisans and Toogood’s crash cymbal of the right here right now present moment.

Rose features seventeen unique pieces hand-painted during Toogood’s residency in Japan (signed and packaged in hand-painted boxes) and a limited edition of 100 reproduced pieces decorated with Toogood’s ROSE artwork.

 Milan Design Week
Faye Toogood
Noritake Design Collection

7th-13th April
Alcova, Villa Borsani
Via Umberto 1.
20814, Varedo