Faye Toogood x Tacchini: Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter: the building blocks of domestic happiness and health. And the inspiration behind Toogood’s newest collaboration with Tacchini.
"Every single morning, I knead, proof and bake a loaf of bread. Some people have transcendental meditation or prayer. I have 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… but I find peace and pride in my relentlessly rising loaf. On the daily bread I can depend."
At the core of Toogood’s studio practice is a hands-on process prioritising materials and model-making.
In this case – a loaf of bread and a slab of butter. Maquettes for a modular sofa were initially made in ever-softening butter, and the forms for tables were found in miniature monuments erected in thick-sliced, piled-up sourdough.
Butter Sofa
Butter is a sculptural, squashy, modular sofa. Generous, butter-soft upholstery melts across oversized building block structures that can be curated and rearranged to your taste.
"I wanted to create a chair as comforting, and as tactile as soft butter. Modelling with slippery fingers, the modular Butter Sofa appeared. Every-day life is a thing of beauty. Sometimes you need go no further than the breakfast table to find meaning. Slice a loaf of bread. Look at it from a new perspective."
Butter Sofa
Originally modelled from a slab of Cornish butter, Butter Sofa embodies the Toogood studio’s playful experimentation and unconventional design process. Hands-on, human, beautiful, useful.
Butter Sofa
Bread Console
Bread console was designed by baking, slicing and balancing two Ciabatta. From this rustic beginning, an elegant wooden console has emerged.
Bread Console
Bread console’s soft and naturalistic forms are carved from Ash. The warmth and tactility of the console is complimented with a stain that celebrates the wood’s natural grain. The console’s Maple inlay is naturally stained in a pale primrose tone, giving the impression of a slice of buttered bread.
Bread Console
Tavolini Bread
Bread side tables were designed by baking, slicing and stacking a loaf of Sourdough bread. From this rustic beginning, two sculptural side tables have emerged. The side table’s Maple inlay is naturally stained in a pale primrose tone, giving the impression of a slice of buttered bread.
Bread side table
Bread side table’s soft and naturalistic forms are carved from Ash. The warmth and tactility of the side tables is complimented with a stain that celebrates the wood’s natural grain.
Bread Side Table
