Solidity and Softness: Tollgard at Focus 2026

Wood. Older Than Architecture

Join us at theTollgard Showroom for Wood, Older Than Architecture - a conversation exploring the enduring language of wood indesign, with product designers Jeroen De Ruddere, Staffan Tollgård and FilippoCastellani, hosted by Pip Rich, Executive Editor of Livingetc.

‍Date: Wednesday 16th September, 4.30pm

Location: Tollgard Showroom, Unit 115, Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, London SW10 0XE

Please email rsvp@tollgard.com to confirm attendance.

Riva1920

Suiseki (水石) translates as "water stone" - the Japanese art of appreciating a naturally formed stone for the landscape it evokes, held in miniature and contemplated for tranquillity and longevity. Offered as a low table, a console and a dining table, the Suiseki collection moves Riva1920's language toward something more sculptural and fluid. Sharp edges are eased into organic shape. Monolithic, soft, harmonious.

Heiko 平衡) means balance and equilibrium. The Heiko dining chair is built around exactly that: structure and aesthetics in quiet dialogue. Sculptural and iconic, it is also grounded and refined, holding visual lightness alongside a chair that is genuinely comfortable to sit in.

De Castelli

Few makers understand metal the way De Castelli does. From their workshops in the Veneto, the house has spent four generations turning brass, copper and steel into surfaces with memory - oxidised, hand-finished, warm rather than cold. Two new pieces bring that craft into the collection.

Francesco Forcellini's Dorica sideboard lays the language of a classical column on its side: clad in metal, its front runs in vertical concave flutes that read as a quiet relief, opening on a polished steel interior. Adele Martelli's Light&Shade wall light sets two overlapping metal discs one before the other, the light glowing from the perimeter and the gap between -the metal doing the work of a shade. One grounded, one luminous; both unmistakably De Castelli.

Jeroen De Ruddere

Belgian designer Jeroen de Ruddere rests a softly diffused light on solid, turned wood, with his FL4 and FL5 floor lamps. The FL5 is a fitting close to the story. Its silhouette is drawn from a tree trunk: a solid, tapering wooden base in oak, mahogany or American walnut, carrying a softly diffusing fabric shade. Handmade and dimmable, it is architectural in presence and gentle in the light it gives - solidity and softness, in a single object.

Bieke Casteleyn

Some pieces arrive with noise; the Clover settles. Hand-built in troweled cement stuc - each one signed, numbered and unique - its soft four-lobed top reads like a cloud at rest on a single rounded plinth. Matt, tactile and quietly warm, it comes in a range of powdery tones, with an Edged option that traces the silhouette in natural stone or afrormosia wood. Two sizes, custom height on request. Familiar in feeling, new in form.

Ceccotti Collezioni

Alongside the shared stand, Tollgard brings forward five new pieces from Ceccotti Collezioni, the Italian house at its Centre Dome showroom. The standout is the Captain Hook wall clock by Guglielmo Ulrich - a piece of design archaeology recreated from a single archival photograph of his 1940s original. A perpendicular beam in solid American walnut holds a brass dial, its numerals enamelled by hand, hands and fixings in burnished brass. Part of Ceccotti's Masters Tribute, it honours the overlooked design objects of the last century - the solid, softened, in its most literal form.

One idea, several houses

From Italy to the Netherlands and Belgium, Focus 2026 makes the case for a single thread running through very different materials and makers. It is the same instinct Tollgard brings to every project: finding the röda tråden, the creative DNA, at the point where environment, architecture and identity meet.

We look forward to welcoming you to the showroom soon.

If you’d like to know more about Focus, please get in touch with our showroom team, they would be delighted to help you.

Email: sales@tollgard.com | Phone: +44 (0)20 8067 2123

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