{"product_id":"baked-in-designing-bakeries-for-taste-and-space","title":"Baked In: Designing Bakeries for Taste and Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomeone dreaming of opening or redesigning a bakery will find a broad survey of current style here. What's often missing is guidance on what makes a bakery feel like it belongs where it stands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaked In\u003c\/em\u003e profiles more than forty retail bakeries around the world, and the dominant look across most of them is strikingly consistent: white and beige surfaces, color used sparingly, and a design language that could often transplant one city's aesthetic into another without much friction. A bakery photographed in Panama City might read as a corner of Copenhagen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe photography concentrates on exteriors and customer-facing spaces: display cases, seating areas, occasional signage and packaging. Kitchens appear only intermittently, and rarely in ways that show how the space actually functions for the people baking in it. The emphasis throughout leans toward what photographs well rather than toward the mechanics of the work. A handful of recipes are scattered in as well, though their purpose is unclear in a book focused on design rather than baking. The sequence of bakeries isn't explained, so the book reads more like a lookbook to browse than a reference to work through in order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot every bakery in the book blends into the same aesthetic. Horli, in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, is built inside two decommissioned passenger rail cars in a former train station. Cycle Cycle Mobile Bakehouse, a portable bakery in Hangzhou that moves between the city's parks, has walls built from stacked grain sacks and an awning shaped to evoke a winnowing basket used for drying grain. Aera, in Berlin, breaks from the prevailing white-and-beige palette with walls and floors in a deep, watercolor-like ultramarine. These are the exceptions that show what the book could have been if more of its subjects were chosen for their connection to place rather than their photogenic uniformity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Color photographs throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEST","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41852553953413,"sku":"Gestalten","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/BakedInCover.jpg?v=1789323985","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/baked-in-designing-bakeries-for-taste-and-space","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}