Most upholstery hides its labor. Crease, the new collection Faye Toogood has designed for Italian furniture house Meritalia, does the opposite. The seams sit right on the surface, tracing softened geometries across an armchair, two- and three-seater sofas, and a coffee table. The pieces look imperfect and resolved at once, like a garment turned inside out and worn anyway, a natural move from a designer who ran a clothing line with and has never treated fashion and furniture as separate disciplines.
The coffee table carries the idea into metal. It reads as a single folded sheet, origami-light on rounded legs, the hard counterpoint to all that generous upholstery.
Meritalia is showing Crease at the Old Selfridges Hotel during Basic.Space London, June 12–14, inside an industrial interior that puts the new work in conversation with the brand’s own history: Carlo Contin’s chromed Snake low table, the Horizon rug made with cc-tapis, and Gaetano Pesce’s luminous Friend and Salvatore from the Edizioni del Pesce series.
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- Designer Faye Toogood. Self-taught and material-led, she built her reputation on pieces like the Roly-Poly chair before the major houses came calling. Photo courtesy of Toogood.
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- The complete Crease collection. Additional installation photography from the London presentation follows after the opening. Photo courtesy of Toogood.
