There’s no consolation like bread and butter – except you’re sinking right into a Faye Toogood couch. For Milan Design Week, the British designer created Bread & Butter, a brand new assortment designed for Italian furnishings model Tacchini. The sequence was impressed by Toogood’s private ritual of baking sourdough every morning as a grounding, tactile act. “Each single morning, I knead, proof, and bake a loaf of bread,” reveals Toogood. “Some individuals have transcendental meditation or prayer. I’ve my sourdough starter and half an hour of sticky, squashy, floury, sensory, in-the-present pleasure. There are some days when the world caves in… however I discover peace and pleasure in my relentlessly rising loaf. On the every day bread I can rely.”
Faye Toogood with Butter Couch mannequin
That every day follow formed the comfortable curves, creamy textures, and quietly indulgent palette of the Bread & Butter collaboration. Debuted at Tacchini’s showroom, the gathering felt proper at residence, staged like a lived-in Milanese house the place each element invited you to sink your enamel into the buttery dreamscape.
Picture: Andrea Ferrari
Picture: DePasquale + Maffin
True to Toogood’s course of, the gathering wasn’t simply imagined – it was felt. Identified for her hands-on strategies, the designer sculpted all the sequence out of precise bread and Cornish butter, utilizing the pliability of the supplies to discover kind, weight, and heat in actual time. That playful experimentation laid the inspiration for the gathering’s star: a generously curved couch that appears – and feels – like one thing you would soften into. “I needed to create a chair as comforting, and as tactile as comfortable butter,” the designer shares. “Modeling with slippery fingers, the modular Butter Couch appeared.”
Toogood with Butter Couch and Bread Desk fashions
In the identical spirit, Toogood baked loaves of ciabatta to discover scale and stacking, utilizing slices as fashions for what would finally turn out to be the gathering’s Bread Console and Bread Aspect Tables. By stacking and balancing the bread in sculptural configurations, she arrived at blocky, architectural kinds that also really feel comfortable across the edges. The ultimate items, carved from ash wooden with a maple inlay, evoke stacked slices of buttered bread, with comfortable edges and a delicate, golden sheen.
Toogood with Bread Desk fashions
Bread & Butter is a reminder that good design doesn’t at all times start in a sketchbook – typically, it begins within the kitchen. Toogood’s method proves that inspiration can rise from essentially the most strange rituals and essentially the most sudden supplies if you happen to’re keen to discover by means of contact, play, and curiosity. As she places it, “On a regular basis life is a factor of magnificence. Generally you want go no additional than the breakfast desk to seek out that means. Slice a loaf of bread. Have a look at it from a brand new perspective.”
Toogood with Bread and Butter fashions
To study extra in regards to the Bread & Butter assortment by Faye Toogood for Tacchini, go to t-o-o-g-o-o-d.com or tacchini.it.
Images courtesy of Tacchini and Faye Toogood.
