Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bruno Baietto hopes to highlight the role of bread as a symbol of class, politics and religion, by using it to shape blown glass.
Baietto has created a series of coloured vases blown inside bread loaves, plus various other ceramic and porcelain objects that commemorate the bread-making process.
Bruno Baietto has created a series of objects that explore the symbolism of bread
The project, titled Follow the Crumbs That Fall From Your Own, explores the symbolism of bread in different social constructs across history.
"Under socialism, bread is a synonym of labour and national progress," said Baietto, "while under capitalism it is a staple food and the result of a large economy."
"It's also a symbol of Christianity, as a gift of god and the body of Christ," he told Dezeen. He created a series of vases blown inside bread loaves
For Baietto, bread is also part of his family history. He grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay, in a family of bakers with political ties in both Brazil and Uruguay.
"So it was a natural decision to explore the symbolism of bread and its production to address the leftovers of my own ideological background," he said.
The bread burns away in the blowing process
Baietto created the blown glass pieces at the Nationaal Glasmuseum in Leerdam, with help from master glassblowers Geir Nurstad and Josja Caecilia Schepman.
The process itself is fairly straightforward.

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