Emily Forgot’s Architectural Wall Art

WORDS Amelia Brown IMAGES via emilyforgot.co.uk


Fusing a passion for interior spaces, architecture and colour, London-based designer, artist and illustrator Emily Alston creates wooden wall-mounted “assemblages” under the moniker Emily Forgot.

Emily Forgot’s most recent collab with Very Good & Proper includes three wall-mounted artworks.

Emily reduces a space – real or imagined – to its core, distinguishable parts, interpreting it through her recognisably playful and graphic visual language into to handmade 2D and 3D assemblages. Her first solo show Neverland took place during London Design Festival in 2016. Since then she’s been commissioned to create bespoke pieces for private and commercial projects, including collaborations with The V&A, Somerset House, The Mondrian hotel, Selfridges, Herman Miller, Absolut and, most recently, British furniture brand Very Good & Proper on a series of multimedia artworks.

From Emily Forgot’s first solo show Neverland in 2016.

For these limited-edition pieces, Emily took inspiration from the architecture of post-war schools. Very Good & Proper’s first product was the Canteen chair, developed by co-founders Ed Carpenter and André Klauser in 2009, and draws on classic post-war British school chairs. Using powder-coated aluminium and oak, Emily’s assemblages reflect the processes, techniques and materials used to produce Very Good & Proper’s furniture.

Check out Emily Forgot’s Instagram (@emilyforgot) to view its creator’s moodboard of inspiration and other projects, some of which are for sale on her site.