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What if a teapot, a soap tray, and a bucket could tell stories about how we bathe? 🛁✨

At 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explored bathing rituals through an unexpected lens: pairs.

Inspired by the idea that some things simply belong together—like bread and butter 🍞🧈—16 designers from different cultures and generations were invited to create two objects reflecting the rituals, memories, and traditions surrounding bathing.

And the results were surprisingly poetic.

Korean designer Hun Lee looked to a rainy-day ritual: drinking tea after a bath. ☕🌧️ His glazed blue teapot and cups sit alongside soft clay trays shaped like raindrops gathering on a window.

For Finnish designer Rasmus Palmgren, the sauna took centre stage. His wooden stool and soap tray are connected by traditional joinery that actually becomes stronger with water use—just like the ritual itself. 🪵💧

London-based John Tree turned a childhood memory into design. Remember being washed in a bucket as a kid? His 3D-printed stool is also the bucket, merging two objects into one playful form. 🪣

Maria Bruun brought a more intimate perspective. Her pitcher and washcloth reflect the everyday ritual of bathing her children—a series of small acts of care repeated over time. ❤️

Japanese designer Shizuka Tatsuno focused on the essential ingredient of every bath: water itself. Her glass vessel transforms water into something to observe and appreciate, capturing ripples, reflections, and shifting light. 🌊✨

And Seoul-based Studio Large Medium Small celebrated the social side of bathing culture with metal bowls inspired by Korean saunas, where sharing snacks can be just as important as washing. 🥚🥣

From Finnish saunas and Japanese bathing traditions to Korean jjimjilbangs and Danish harbour baths, Bread & Butter revealed how one of our most ordinary daily routines can hold memories, rituals, and cultural stories from around the world. 🌍🛁

📸 Photos by Bread & Butter.

Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks — the 15th edition of Clerkenwell Design Week is transforming London’s most design-literate neighbourhood into an open-air festival of ideas. ✨ Archipanic is a proud media partner — here’s where to go 👇

🕍 St Bartholomew the Great returns as the Church of Design, hosting talks and furniture displays. Don’t miss Fung+Bedford’s Resonance — illuminated suspended paper sculptures whose folded geometry feels impossibly delicate against the weight of that ancient architecture. Fragility meets permanence. Stunning.

🌈 One Bite Design’s Fountain of Technicolour Beads addresses colour blindness with tactile differentiation — where colours blur, textures speak. A genuinely thoughtful piece of design thinking.

♻️ Alexane Quenderff’s five BinSight Benches are built entirely from waste materials deemed too difficult to recycle. Scan the QR code and guess the materials. Harder than it sounds!

☕ Studio Egret West’s Brew House pavilion is built from 600 bricks made with ~300 kg of waste coffee grounds from London cafés. Each brick uses 10% less clay and weighs 5% less than a standard one. Circular economy, beautifully executed.

🌿 In the Order of St John garden, LA ERRERÍA’s The Secret Garden for Tile of Spain evokes the four seasons — inspired, charmingly, by Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

🌱 And at Haberdashers’ Hall, watch chia seeds gradually sprout across two crescent shells over the course of the festival in The Pulse of Becoming. Living, breathing design.

☑️ Heidelberg Materials presents a sculpture by Ashley Cluer alongside a modular 3D-printed concrete installation — both made using a near-zero carbon captured cement.

💡 The underground House of Detention hosts Light, CDW’s dedicated lighting showcase — including Loom Light, a 3D-printed sculpture by MIMstudios at the entrance. Atmospheric.

🪑 Over at St James Church, the British Collection brings together some of the UK’s most exciting furniture and lighting brands. A must for anyone serious about homegrown design talent.

Full guide on Archipanic.com 🔗