Pillowy lamps, daybeds that look like stacked mattresses and rugs featuring abstract renderings of private body parts feature in an exhibition of new launches from Faye Toogood at Milan design week.
The Rude Arts Club showcase brings together products created by the British designer for rug company CC-Tapis and furniture brand Tacchini that explore sex and the human form from a female perspective.
Faye Toogood is exhibiting new products with CC-Tapis and Tacchini
"This is my take on embracing all that comes with being a woman," Toogood told Dezeen. "I'm a couple of years off being 50 and I spent the last 20-30 years in design not really drawing attention to being female."
"I'm a second-wave feminist," she added. "We were much more like: being female is not part of the conversation. We don't want to talk about it. We're just designers." The rugs feature vaguely phallic shapes
The collection of Rude rugs was born from impromptu paintings made by Toogood after visiting an exhibition of work by artist Francis Bacon, who made the human body his central subject.
"It got me thinking about the male interpretation of sexuality and the body," Toogood said. "And I thought, I'll have a go at doing that myself."
Others are emblazoned with ovarian forms
The designer initially suggested half as a joke that CC-Tapis should turn her "mischievous" paintings into rugs for their latest collaboration.
But co-founder Fabrizio...