Faye Toogood grew up in the fields of the English countryside. From an early age she would go out into the woods in her wellies and collect sticks, stones and broken bones and place them on the mantelpiece in her bedroom. In her twenties, she turned up at Vogue House with a leather suitcase full of found objects and got a job as a stylist at The World of Interiors.

Since then, Faye has become one of the most recognisable figures in the design and art industry, and her work can be found in museum collections around the world. Her magpie instinct and obsession with landscape continue to permeate everything she designs, whether it’s a bronze doorknob moulded from an abandoned skull, a fashion collection inspired by hay bales or a house interior with the melancholic palette of an English sky.

Faye Toogood’s work spans interior design, homeware, art and fashion, and she refuses to stick to any one discipline or defined way of working.

Her London studio is filled with maverick talents like herself – architects, sculptors, furniture designers and illustrators intersect in each project, producing work that is rigorous, poetic and genuinely avant-garde. Among them is her sister, Erica Toogood. Erica has inherited the deft hands of her grandmother, a tailor who made parachute underwear during the Second World War. Before joining forces with Faye, she worked with several London fashion designers as a pattern cutter and created costumes for theatrical productions. Toogood’s clothes are imbued with the unmistakable spirit of both sisters: Faye’s concern for materiality and Erica’s bold shape-making. One bold and playful, the other sartorial.