These bread bowls were designed at BaserMatter with Nathan Currier-Groh for Sotto, a premier italian restaurant in downtown Cincinnati.  The design reflects our initiative to produce products that celebrate their own materiality as well as the processes used to create them.  The client was interested in a natural, almost rustic aesthetic which we leveraged into a bowl design that expressed the beauty of Walnut by allowing the CNC mill’s round tool to leave its mark in the direction of the grain.  Leaving the toolpath exposed goes against the perfection assumed to be inherent to CNC machining but, as fabricators, we were able to program the mill to leave exactly the right offset and achieve the pattern desired.  For mass production, numerous bowls were machined along the length of a single board before being cut free, laser branded, oiled and delivered.