Mignon Faget celebrates 40 years in style

Just before opening her Baton Rouge gallery in 2005, acclaimed designer Mignon Faget designed an actual baton rouge—a sterling stick enameled in red—”a fun yet meaningful design,” she says. “I also added a Tiger to my Animal Crackers collection as a tribute to Baton Rouge and the state university.” The New Orleans native returns to Baton Rouge this month with an extensive 40th anniversary retrospective exhibit at Louisiana State Museum adjacent to Capitol Park in downtown Baton Rouge. Beginning today, “Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design” will feature items from Faget’s 33 collections of jewelry, glassware, porcelain and clothing designs, plus unique works from special private commissions and her newest line commemorating the Louisiana Bicentennial. “I am flattered to be considered a New Orleans icon, but my work has always been about Louisiana and the Gulf Coast as much as it has been about New Orleans,” Faget says. “I have always ventured out of my New Orleans home to study the flora of the swamps and the architecture of the plantations along the River Road, and the amazing river control system in the northern part of Louisiana.” Read the full story by Robin Mayhall in this month’s 225 here.