Milan Design Week April 2025

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.” – Faye Toogood

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.

Toogood’s Bread and Butter collection for Tacchini features Butter Sofa: an upholstered, sectional seating system. Bread and Butter Side Table (in short and tall variations) and Bread and Butter Console: All carved from stained ash wood with maple inlays.

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.” – Faye Toogood

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.

BREAD CONSOLE

Bread Console was designed by baking, slicing and balancing two Ciabatta. From this rustic beginning, an elegant wooden console has emerged. Bread and Butter 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 and Butter captures the Toogood studio’s spirit of restless experimentation and unconventional play. Sculptural forms found by modelling maquettes out of home-baked bread and slabs of Cornish butter. The building blocks of domestic happiness and health.

BREAD SIDE TABLES

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. Bread and Butter Side Table’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.

 Milan Design Week
Faye Toogood x Tacchini
Bread and Butter
Tacchini Showroom
Largo Treves, 5
20121 Milano

8th-13th April
10am - 7pm Tue-Sat
10am - 5pm Sun