Bringing stability and design to bread baking

Handmade in Alexia’s studio in Brooklyn, the Stabile Lame is designed to provide the baker a steady, smooth, and safe bread scoring experience. A limited edition series of 14 will be made, 7 in brass and Purple Heart, and 7 in brass and Wenge wood.

Product Design / Physical Prototyping

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The challenge

As an avid bread baker Alexia became frustrated with the bread scoring tool she was using: the sharp blade was precarious to load and once installed it would move around and sometimes come off during scoring . In her design process hear focus was a safe and easy blade loading and stability during scoring.

The solution

The smooth curve transitions on the handle emulate the cuts often seen on the surface of the baguettes and is optimized for a comfortable grip. For securing the blade quickly and securely a hinge and synch mechanism was designed in brass. 

Get a peak into the process of prototyping and testing various forms, as well as the production process of making these bespoke tools.

An alphabet made of bread

This typography project presented itself shortly after the Stabile Bread Lame 1.0 was made. Alexia decided to go on a two-day baking spree to puh the limits of what could be done with scoring. Since the scoring is done on the unbaked bread, the baking process dictates the final letter forms, which at times yielded some unexpected results.

Typography / Visual Design

Process

After baking 26+ loaves of bread, over a period of about 24 hours, it was time to photograph the results to create the poster. Here is a peak into the entire process.