Well bread: New earthenware collection is made from flour

Milan – Studio Formafantasma used flour as the main ingredient to make its Autarchy collection of earthenware crockery, presented today in Milan alongside bread and brooms.

‘It’s called Autarchy because it’s an installation that proposes a different way of producing goods,’ says Simone Farresin, one half of Eindhoven-based Studio Formafantasma.

The installation is about a new type of utopian community which aims to reconnect consumers with the goods they own and use.

To the flour, which makes up 70% of the bowls, Farresin and his partner Andrea Trimarchi add 20% agricultural waste, 10% natural limestone, and a splash of colour – which is of course natural. The colour in the dark brown bowls comes from a pinch of cinnamon. The green ones are green thanks to boiled spinach.

Speaking to LS:N Global at the Autarchy launch, today at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Farresin explained the philosophy behind the collection: to reconnect people with objects and craft.

We will be editing and uploading this interview as a podcast next week, as part of our Milan Week Review.