Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter is an itinerant exhibition platform that explores everyday rituals through the concept of paired objects. Transforming everyday spaces—such as bookstores, salons, restaurants, and parking lots—into stages for collaboration, designers from different generations and cultural backgrounds translate their personal routines and local traditions into perfectly matched pairs. Just as "bread and butter" signifies something essential and inseparable, the paired objects form functional, aesthetic, and social relationships—quietly conveying each designer's experiences and contexts, while opening space for new connections and creative dialogue with local communities.
The second edition of Bread and Butter explores perfect pairs in bathing. More than a hygienic act, bathing is a daily ritual that rinses off fatigue, clears the mind, and creates space to carry on with the day. In warm water and steam, the body loosens, and temperature and sound gently slow the pace of the mind. Yet these quiet moments are not always private. From Danish harbour bathing and Finnish saunas to Korean jjimjilbangs and Japanese onsens, we share water and heat, moving quietly along the boundary between self and others. Where the first edition looked to dining, this edition turns to bathing—16 invited designers translating their own routines and cultural backgrounds into a perfect pair.
