Discover six thought-provoking quotes from leading designers featured in Wallpaper*'s 2024 interviews, including Faye Toogood and Michael Bennett. These insights offer a glimpse into the current design landscape and inspire us as we move towards 2025.
As always, the Wallpaper* team has been busy tracking the pulse on the design radar throughout the past year – through product and space launches, collaborations, exhibitions and fairs around the world. We’ve had the pleasure of speaking with designers and curators, from the esteemed to the emerging, giving their insight into the current design landscape. Here are just six of our favourite design quotes – and a chance to revisit the interviews they came from – to inspire us into 2025.
Left, Faye Toogood, photographed at her studio in north London, in February 2024. Right, the ‘Squash’ armchair, long mirror, rug and footstool‘The world doesn't necessarily need any more chairs, but if I'm going to do something, then I hope that it will push down barriers for myself, but also for others that are coming up behind me’, as part of the Italian furniture company's 'Imagine' collection. Expression is a distinctive trait of Toogood’s. Her work is sculptural with soft edges, inspired by three-dimensional artworks and informed by nature, with a nod to ancient artefacts and folk. In this case, an exploration of the Poltrona Frau archives, paired with Toogood’s own universe, resulted in what she describes as ‘English Folk with Italian Horsepower’. She spoke with Wallpaper* about working with the Poltrona Frau and injecting a playful sense of naivety and folksy elements into the collection.‘As a Black designer, you have to be able to tell stories of your history because not a lot of people have the platform’NFL player-turned-designer Michael Bennett, the founder of Studio Kër, spoke with us in 2024 about the studio's debut furniture exhibition, ‘We Gotta Get Back to the Crib’, presented in’ Rebuild Foundation. Bennett had worked on the collection with industrial designer Imhotep Blot, who died before the project was presente
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