13.03.2024

Events, Designers

RUDE ARTS CLUB

At Milan Design Week 2024, cc-tapis and Tacchini unveiled the Rude Arts Club, an intimate escape from trade-show hustling and bustling. A house full of unique rooms, each designed and decorated to amplify the diverse output of Faye Toogoods most recent period of intense creativity.
The cc-tapis showroom has been completely reimagined to celebrate and showcase the combined vision of two distinctive collections. Cosmic is Toogood and Tacchinis first collaborative collection of furniture. Rude is the third instalment of handmade rugs in Toogoods ongoing partnership with cc-tapis.

Creative Process — Photo John Williams

I didnt want to do something expected. Rugs can end up bland. Background. Something you pile furniture on, forget about, stamp all over. Im proposing something much bolder.”

 

ABOUT RUDE COLLECTION

 

Theres nothing neutral about Rude: Toogoods third collaboration with cc-tapis.
A collection of sensual, sculptural rugs which bring together high craft and hijinks, pairing the designer’s restless experimentation with cc-tapisunmatched craftsmanship.

Detail of Tongue-and-cheek — Rude collection by Faye Toogood

The mischievous motifs and provocative colours were in part inspired by Fayes visit to an exhibition of Francis Bacons paintings. Suggestive shapes bump up against vivid colour, making a statement about what it personally means to inhabit a female body that is changing. “As time passes I feel connected to my body in a different way, and I see beauty and sexuality from a wildly different perspective.” – declares the British designer.

Detail of Poking Fun — Rude collection by Faye Toogood

Faye Toogoods emotional and playful approach has inspired cc-tapis to see new possibilities within their skills and technology. Textures take on new scale. Planes of colour are developed with greater depth and complexity. And for Toogood, the collaboration has pushed the studio to rethink and redefine the objectality of a rug.

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