Steal This Look: Designer Faye Toogood's Artful London Patio

Designer Faye Toogood's home in London could be torn from the pages of The World of Interiors, where she got her start at 21 years old. In Toogood's garden, a small patio looks spacious, with clean paving and spare furniture. Grapevines scale a burnt wood pergola overhead, and strangulated roses crawl the front of the rusted steel backplane.

Recreate the key elements of her modern city garden with ready-to-buy essentials and a few hard-to-source art pieces from the designer herself:

Above: Designed in collaboration with Paul Gazerwitz of London firm del Buono Gazerwitz, Toogood's garden is furnished with a cast aluminum version of her own Spade chairs. Photograph by Henry Bourne for T Magazine.

Above: Available at Oliver Gustav in Copenhagen, Toogood's aluminum Spade Chair (left) borrows inspiration from a milking stool with a spade handle. Similar in composition, the Starck Hudson Chair in brushed aluminum is built for outdoor use; $820 at Design Within Reach. The affordable Arc En Ciel Folding Chair is a slightly similar look in powder-coated steel for $98 also at Design With Reach.

Above: The mildly traditional Catalina Rectangular Dining Table is built of a darkened, rustproof aluminum; currently $1,015 at Restoration Hardware.

Above: The Cobble Hill Parsons Bench, designed for ABC Carpet & Home, is made from a sustainable burnt oak with brass inlay detail for $795.

Above: Faye Toogood's own Concrete Bowl, above, is an oversize bowl cast from concrete and available through Fumi Gallery in London. For a similar effect, Chen Chen and Kai Williams' Green Square Tray in colored cement is $80 at Matter and their Cantaloupe Planter is $44 directly from Chen Chen and Kai Williams.

Above: Knowing Toogood's affinity for blue inside her home, the handblown set of Lobmeyr Alpha Glassware by Hans Harald Rath is a likely set for outdoor serving; $65 per Water Tumbler and $210 for the Water Pitcher at March.

Above: For a similar look to Faye's herringbone patio, see our post on Pennsylvania Bluestone and Hardscaping 101: Design Guide for Patio Pavers.

Above: Available at Terrain, lightweight Fiberclay Barrel Pots range from $28-$78 each. For a metal version, see 10 Easy Pieces: Zinc Barrel Planters.

Above: Similar to Gazerwitz's installation of the garden's steel backplane, Plodes Studio's Geometric Firepit is made from evenly rusted low-carbon steel; $1,195 for the small size at Design Within Reach.

For more from del Buono Gazerwitz, see our post Landscape Architect Visit: A London Terrace Gets a Grownup Update from del Buono Gazerwitz. For more dining sets, shop through our Outdoor Furniture selects.

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