The Bakery Stools

This project explores the opportunity to work with Big River bakery, a community driven social enterprise in Newcastle. The aim was to consider how a collection of seating could reflect the bakery, with the principles of emotional design being a useful guideline for the designs throughout. The Bakeries desire to gain connections with the community through initiatives such as baking classes for children, also inspired the project. The stottie, a bread that is a symbol of the Northeast originating in working class communities, informed my design. The result was two well-crafted stackable stools reflecting the bakery in different ways. The first, an investigation into hardwood processes and the other investigating metal processes made from mild steel.