Bread and clay: two crafts combined in Nice
We travel now to Nice, in Southern France, to see another project using our clay floors: a bakery that makes its products using artisan techniques.
The philosophy of the bakery L’artisan de pains oubliés, in Nice (France), has many similarities with the neo-craftsmanship ideas that we at todobarro are implementing with our clay tiles. As they say on their website, L’artisan brings to market exceptional bread, observing the ancestral tradition of artisan bakers. Based on ecological products, they like to emphasise quality and simplicity.
Bakery and todobarro clay tiles, a long-term relationship
This may be why the Bancaù Architectes studio of architecture, also located in Nice, considered using the bespoke formats of the todobarro tiles for this project.
However, the different areas that were to be addressed required a solution that was not too linear. Therefore, a wide variety of formats in our clay flooring were chosen, ranging from up to four varieties of our Rectángulo in reddish hues; and another from our Cuadrado product, also in reddish hues.
Resolving the requirements of several different rooms entailed combining our basic formats with a wide variety of different sizes.
This diversity of options allowed for the most optimal solution for each case, without sacrificing the finish in any way. To this end, the venue’s flooring required combining, in a mesh, the bespoke 20x5x3 Rectangle with the bespoke 3.7x4x3 Rectangle, both in reddish hues.
A similar version of the mesh was used for the wall in the main room, but in this case including the 20×3.7×1.5 Rectangle and 3.7×3.7 Square formats, both in reddish hues. On the other hand, all of the walls in the bathrooms were tiled in the basic format 30×10 Rectangle.
Lastly, other areas, such as the bakery’s traditional working oven, applied our 20×10 Rectangle tile as vertical cladding, again in reddish hues.
Further information on the project
This project, which came to us through Bancaù Architectes, is also exceptionally reviewed on the website Divisare, where you can read the details and peruse numerous photos of the end finishes.
The Instagram account of the bakery L’artisan des pains oubliés also offers a full description of how the clay tiles were placed throughout the venue, on floors, walls, bathrooms, and on the oven itself.
All of the pictures are by Lorenzo Zandri, a London-based photographer who specialises in architecture.
