Milan Design Week 2023: tapped by Maison Matisse, the London-based designer has taken inspiration from the French master’s forms to create a collection of heirloom-worthy objects
, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec included – have focused on the riot of colour that characterised the French artist’s best-known works, Toogood has instead honed in on his form. More specifically, she has looked at his lesser-known black and white drawings, 1943’sUsing black Chinese ink on white paper, the drawings served as a study of the fluidity and momentum of Matisse’s gestures and the liberty of his lines.
Those shapes and freehand drawings were then taken off the page to create the ‘Esquisses’ collection: incorporating them as flat patterns on soft wool blankets and hand-knotted rugs, and into three-dimensional furniture, too. ‘I’m always fascinated by the play between two-dimensional and three-dimensional creation,’ says Toogood.
The hand-upholstered bouclé armchair best evokes the equilibrium and elegance of still-life: the curved sides arching like Matisse’s balanced lines, while also creating voids that echo the negative space that give his life drawings space and scale.
Though this collaboration marks a first formal collaboration between Toogood and Maison Matisse, the work of the artist has long been a source of inspiration for the London-based designer. In 2017, Toogood dedicated her ‘Assemblage 5’ collection to Matisse’s Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence, for which he famously created every last detail – from the stained glass and tiles, to the priest’s vestments.
The ‘Esquisses’ collection by Faye Toogood for Maison Matisse is on show during Milan Design Week, from 17 – 22 April 2023
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