Toogood take over Casa Tacchini with Material Anthology

A site-specific sculptural intervention celebrating raw materials and hands-on making.

Year

2026

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Photography

Helenio Barbetta

For Toogood, materials are a playground. At the centre of their London studio – open shelves display a diverse and delicious library of raw materials. Lumps of clay, twists of metal, blocks of timber assembled into Faye Toogood’s cabinet of curiosity. For Salone del Mobile 2026, Toogood were invited to take over Casa Tacchini for the duration of the fair. Faye’s response was Material Anthology: A site-specific sculptural intervention.

Faye Toogood has plundered the Tacchini studio, workshops and archives – curating an anthology of raw materials as the focal point of Material Anthology. Toogood have reimagined Casa Tacchini with a bold intervention. Offcuts, samples, and a bounty of raw materials are reshaped into site-specific sculptures that celebrate the hands-on, human process of design. Each room of Material Anthology amplifies a tonal palette drawn from Tacchini’s natural materials from the blue veins of a hunk of marble to the blushing pink of a timber knot.

«Materials are the starting point of everything we do at Toogood. There’s a big area dedicated to it in the studio, I’ve always called it my jewellery box. I’ll pull pieces from this library and see how they talk to each other. I like the fact that if I take the same chair and I do it in plastic, bronze glass, aluminium, or gold leaf, every time it has a completely different connotation. It’s the same shape, but I just changed the material. How do you feel about it? How does it impact you? How do you connect to it? I wanted to encourage Tacchini to explore their own jewellery box with the same curiosity. They work with the most incredible natural materials. Material Anthology is a testament to the nobility, quality and infinite potential of Tacchini’s raw ingredients.» — Faye Toogood

Material Anthology

Faye Toogood

Faye Toogood
Faye Toogood is a British-born designer. She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Bristol and was Interiors Editor at The World of Interiors for eight years. In 2008 she founded her own studio in London with which she carries out multiple projects. Her multidisciplinary approach ranges from interior design, homeware, fine art and fashion. The contamination of different disciplines makes her designs poetic and avant-garde. Texturality and experimentation characterise her highly sculptural and instinctive works
Tacchini
Tacchini is an Italian company created in 1967 by Antonio Tacchini. All products are made in the Brianza area between Milan and Como with a strong manufacturing and artisan tradition. This allows the company to directly control their quality, minimize pollution and energy consumption resulting from their transportation. Tacchini has always collaborated with the great masters of design such as Achille Castiglioni and Gianfranco Frattini and still today continues on a path of re-editions that challenges and teaches contemporaneity.

Altri Progetti

HARDCORE unfolds as a layered exhibition, from the central installation presenting CORE to a broader dialogue with past SEM collections, extending to Tacchini’s updated pieces on the lower level and concluding outdoors with FAST’s open-air settings.

Rooted in craftsmanship, driven by experimentation, defined by innovation.