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Toogood’s installation is a visually arresting break from the product launches and displays that typically characterise design weeks. The resin cast switches are assembled into a configuration on a table that simultaneously references natural basalt columns and sci-fi cityscapes, while the fluorescent tube lights are hung in a pattern aping that of a graphic equaliser. Surrounding the installation are zinc-plated steel panels that rainbow shimmer like an oil slick.
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“A design week is not always necessarily about producing a new piece or a new chair,” says Toogood. “It can be about communicating to your fellow designers and others how you feel about the design industry at this time. Getting people involved, thinking about what’s going on and exploring different materials. I think the festival should be experimental as well as containing finished projects.”
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The installation is Toogood’s first experimentation in lighting and a break from her more familiar editioned furniture and interior work, yet it still resonates with the craft-qualities of her earlier work. The Conductor is an unashamed celebration of the low-fi history of lighting. Massed cables are left on the floor; the light source are fluorescent tubes rather than modern LEDs; and the centrepiece of the installation are banks of simple metal switches. It is, you sense, a reaction towards current technology-driven trends in lighting design.
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“A lot of the very technical lighting that we see in Milan and art and gallery installations now are such that everything is hidden away and the light is disembodied from the elements that produce it,” says Toogood. “But I quite like the idea of celebrating the analogue qualities of the simple cable and switch, the basic bulb. Trying to make something beautiful out of those industrial, primitive things. There is something magical and compulsive and obsessive about flicking switches.
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“I think at the moment everyone has this battle in their heads between analogue and digital. Are we in the industrial age or the age of craftsmanship? This battle is in a lot of designers heads at the moment. Where do we sit and what does the future bring in terms of design? I’m not an industrial designer and I’m not used to working with contemporary, modern technologies. I’m much more artisan and craft based, and I quite like this idea of an intensely analogue light performance.”
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