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I AM A BAKER STUDIO BOOK EDIT No.1
FREDERIK MOLENSCHOT
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Stick and stone makes fire. PLUS AND MINUS turns lights on. ZERO AND ONE equals THE DIGITAL WORLD. without stick and stone, there’s no light, Internet or warmth. Whether you bake with ones and zeroes or sculpt with your bare hands, every aesthetic is the result of a calculation in a brain. Here’s to the makers and bakers.
I AM A BAKER
My first ever job was working in a bakery. As well as the smell of freshly baked bread, I loved watching how simple ingredients were moulded into something new, a handmade object more than the sum of its parts. What we do at Studio Molen isn’t much different - we just use bronze instead of flour. We make something, test it, then make it again and again until it’s right. Whether you’re an architect, writer or baker, we all go to the same lengths to craft whatever makes us happy. It’s a constant quest for perfection, in which the only way to improve is by making. Ever since that bakery in Breda, I’ve been fascinated by processes (even this book is a process: Edit One in a series of as yet undetermined publications to come from Studio Molen). Whatever emerges as the final result is the icing on the creative cake, but sometimes I think that things look more beautiful in the rough world of the workshop, surrounded by the dirt and detritus of construction, than in the polished ambience of a gallery. Fortunately beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is why I’ve decided to open up our workshop across these pages. You won’t see any finished products, just works in progress and glimpses into how we think, work and live in our atelier. It’s not the bread on the shelf, it’s the story of how it got there. A story that’s meant to be seen, not read – so without further ado, welcome to Studio Molen.
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I AM A BAKER
A big special thanks to all the creators, makers and believers: Dick, Hanneke, Fernand, Didier, Esther, KRIS, CHESTER, Friso, Jeroen, Joep, TRISTAN, Joke, Willem, Johan, Michiel, Piet, Guido, Jos, JOHAN, Thomas, Loic, Julien, Luka, Lesley, Paul, Olaf, DAAN, Leonie, Else, Adolfo, JAVIER, MARIE, HUGO, Silvia, Erwin, Moene & Maarten.
Credits for the images: Maarten Willemstein, Jerome de Lint, KIYOMI YUI, Arie de Leeuw, Frederik Molenschot, HAYDEN PHIPPS, Rogier van Tilburg, Gijs Kast, WILLEM WEEMHOFF, KRISTIAN VAN KUIJK, Thomas Rompa & GOOGLE.
Credits for the text: Will Georgi
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