‘Designer Baking’ is a project undertaken by the London based design practice of STUDIOLAV. The two young Greek designers who founded the practice, Loukas Angelou and Vasso Asfi, created two solid pyramid-shaped baking stamps in response to an event staged by the Skoufa Gallery in Athens, which invited designers to develop a contemporary version of ‘folklore’ using Olive wood as their main material.
The stamps are a functional decorating tool, similar the traditional wooden stamps used on the ‘prosfora’ or votive offerings of bread within the Orthodox religion. The contemporary element are the non-traditional designs on the baking stamps, Herringbone and Pied de Ponte, or Houndstooth check, more often seen as tweed patterns of warm winter fabrics used in the F/W Collections of top fashion designers.
The designers have taken elements from their native ‘food themed’ culture, ‘olives and bread’, the basis of a classic Mediterranean diet, together with the specified material of Olive wood, which has been widely used for the creation of kitchen utensils for centuries. The up and coming practice of STUDIOLAV have been nominated for the Elle Decoration International Design Awards under the Young Talents of the Year 2013 section and we wish them the very best of luck!
